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Old New York. Illustrated - EDITH WHARTON

Old New York. Illustrated

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EDITH WHARTON

 
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Edith Wharton’s Old New York (1924) is a masterful cycle of four novellas that vividly reconstruct the manners, morals, and hidden dramas of New York society across the nineteenth century. With her keen eye for detail and unflinching honesty, Wharton explores the rigid codes of class, wealth, and reputation that defined the city’s elite, revealing the tensions between individual desire and social convention. Each of the four stories—False Dawn (set in the 1840s), The Old Maid (1850s), The Spark (1860s), and New Year’s Day (1870s)—captures a different era in the evolution of New York life. Wharton presents characters caught in conflicts of love, duty, and ambition, showing how the weight of tradition both sustains and suffocates them. The collection as a whole traces the transformation of a city striving to balance inherited values with the lure of modernity. Through her elegant prose and subtle irony, Wharton portrays not only the glittering drawing rooms and strict hierarchies of upper-class society but also the quiet sacrifices and compromises made behind closed doors. Her characters—idealists, dreamers, and conformists alike—struggle with secrets that cannot always remain hidden. Old New York is both a social history and a timeless study of human longing. It reminds readers of the price paid when appearances matter more than truth, and of the fragile humanity that persists beneath the rigid mask of respectability.

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Author:  EDITH WHARTON
Title: Old New York. Illustrated
Release date: August 2025
Editor: LIVRES NUMÉRIQUES DIVERS
Pages: 249
Subject: NUL DIVERS
ISBN: 9786178702014 (6178702019)
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