· The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” 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, ISBN The New York Stories of Edith Wharton. 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. · The New York Stories of Edith Wharton is a collection of twenty stories par excellence written from to that offers an incisive and unsparing social commentary on Old New York/5.
Edith Wharton. The novelist known as Edith Wharton ( - ) was born as Edith Newbold Jones. The Joneses were a wealthy New York family and one of Wharton's biographers claims that the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" is in reference to her father's family. As part of America's privileged class, Edith Wharton was well-acquainted with. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton. Price: $ Quantity. About the Book. 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. Bishops' nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton is a collection of twenty stories par excellence written from to that offers an incisive and unsparing social commentary on Old New York. An introduction by Roxanna Robinson acquaints us with Wharton's life among the privileged and fashionable upper crust of society, its suffocating Puritan values, the conflict she felt between the formal.
Download The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton Books now! Available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Although Edith Wharton is best known for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, this extensive collection of her short fiction shows her to be a master of all its varieties. The selected short stories of Edith Wharton / by: Wharton, Edith, Published: () The portable Edith Wharton / by: Wharton, Edith, Published: () The letters of Edith Wharton / by: Wharton, Edith, Published: (). The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” 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.
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