The four short novels in this collection by the author of The Age of Innocence are set in the New York of the s, '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's. Originally published in and long out of print, these tales are vintage Wharton, dealing boldly with such themes as infidelity, illegitimacy, Cited by: 3. E-book service 📚 LitRes invites you to download Old New York / 4 novellas about historical NYC by Edith Wharton (False Dawn + The Old Maid + The Spark + New Year's Day), Edith Wharton as epub or read it online! Write and read reviews about the book at LitRes! · The four novellas collected here, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capture New York of the s, '50s, '60s, and 'bltadwin.rually published in , this outstanding quartet includes False Dawn, about a rocky father/son relationship; The Old Maid, the best known of the four, in which a young woman's hidden illegitimate child is adoted by her best friend.
Old New York is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the s, s, s, and s. 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. Spanning four decades in the midth century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York lay out in vivid detail the complex and inscrutable codes, customs, and taboos of New York society in classic Wharton style.. In False Dawn (s), Mr. Halston Raycie sends his son, Lewis, to Europe to buy art, as Mr. Raycie aims to ascend to the upper crust of society by means of a well-respected art. The four novellas collected here, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capture New York of the s, '50s, '60s, and 'bltadwin.rually published in , this outstanding quartet includes False Dawn, about a rocky father/son relationship; The Old Maid, the best known of the four, in which a young woman's hidden illegitimate child is adoted by her best friend.
Old New York: Four Novellas (Paperback) Published December 1st by Washington Square Press. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Edith Wharton. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. The four novellas are: "False Dawn" (perhaps 19, words), "The Old Maid" (perhaps 29, words), "The Spark" (about 15, words), and "New Year's Day" (perhaps 23, words.) The unifying conceit is that they all concern upper class New York society, in four consecutive decades, the '40s, '50s, '60s, and '70s. Old New York is my first experience reading Edith Wharton but it won’t be my last. These four short novellas are set in New York society, each giving the reader a glimpse of the conventions and conduct of “polite society” during the last half of the 19th century (not always polite and frequently unkind).
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