One night he meets May’s cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska. This exotic and beautiful woman has returned to New York from Poland after a mysterious scandal. Newland becomes caught in a battle between duty and mystery, between tradition and the power of love.

Syllabus
Present Continuous: future plans and activities, present actions; Past Perfect Simple: in reported speech and narrative; Complex sentences where the relations between clauses are uncomplicated; Defining relative clauses with which, that; Reported speech/verbs/questions past tense reporting verbs; 2nd conditional: if + past, would(n’t); 2nd conditional wish.

In this Reader you will find:
A short biography of the author, Edith Wharton | Culture and society in 1870s New York | Final test.

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Love | Culture and Society