First published in 1924, Old New York is a sequence of four novellas in which Edith Wharton revisits the moral codes and social structures of nineteenthcentury Manhattan.Comprising "False Dawn," "The Old Maid," "The Spark," and "New Years Day," the volume traces successive decades in the life of New York society, examining the tension between inherited custom and emerging modern sensibility. Whartons attention rests not upon spectacle but upon the quiet pressures exerted by reputation, lineage, and social expectation.Each novella centres upon individuals constrained by convention yet compelled toward private moral reckoning. Wharton renders interiorsboth architectural and psychologicalwith measured precision. Beneath formal manners and rigid propriety lie suppressed loyalties, concealed histories, and the enduring conflict between personal desire and communal judgment.In revisiting an earlier New York, Wharton offers neither nostalgia nor indictment, but a controlled examination of the forces that shape identity within a tightly ordered world. The collection stands as a late and reflective work by one of the principal American novelists of the early twentieth century.

Binding: Paperback;220 pages; Publisher: Wilder Publications; Classification: N/A; Weight: 450.21 g; Dimensions: N/A

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