Name: Old New York: Tales of The Big Apple: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark & New Year's Day
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Author: Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9788027307623

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Old New York: Tales of The Big Apple: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark & New Year's Day

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

E-Artnow

Language

English

Pages

148

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.8 cm

Weight

0.21 kg.

ISBN13

9788027307623

Synopsis "Old New York: Tales of The Big Apple: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark & New Year's Day"

Old New York is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. The New York of these stories is the same as the New York of The Age of Innocence, from which several fictional characters have spilled over into these stories. The observation of the manners and morals of 19th century New York upper-class society is directly reminiscent of The Age of Innocence, but these novellas are shaped more as character studies. Table of Contents: - False Dawn (The Forties) - The Old Maid (The Fifties) - The Spark (The Sixties) - New Year's Day (The Seventies)

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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