Author: Edith Wharton
Year: 1924
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Classic, Short Stories
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9780020383147
9780671023362
0020383142
0671023365 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
The four short novels in this collection, by the author of The Age of Innocence, are set in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, each one revealing the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton.
Included in this remarkable quartet are False Dawn, which concerns the stormy relationship between a domineering father and his son; The Old Maid, the best-known of the four, in which a young woman's secret illegitimate child is adopted by her best friend -- with devastating results; The Spark, about a young man's moral rehabilitation, which is "sparked" by a chance encounter with Walt Whitman; and New Year's Day, an O. Henryesque tale of a married woman suspected of adultery.
This book is part of the "Old New York" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "City of Dreams"
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 | "The Old Maid"
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 | "City of Glory"
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