The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (New York Review Books

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (New York Review Books Classics)

A New York Review Books Original

Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishopsâ€™ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcÃ©es struggling to hold their own.

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Whartonâ€™s career. From her first published story, â€œMrs. Mansteyâ€™s View,â€ to one of her last and most celebrated, â€œRoman Fever,â€ this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged.

Illuminated by Roxana Robinsonâ€™s Introduction, these stories showcase Whartonâ€™s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590172483
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2007-10-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590172483

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781590172483
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2007-10-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590172483

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (New York Review Books Classics)

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