- Published: 15 December 2007
- ISBN: 9781590172483
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 488
- RRP: $35.00
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
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- Published: 15 December 2007
- ISBN: 9781590172483
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 488
- RRP: $35.00
"Wharton was Old New York...[her family] clung together, intermarried, set the tone and made the rules for society in Manhattan...Her New York fiction spans the years from, roughly, 1840 through the turn of the century--from before her birth, in other words, through the Civil War and beyond into the Gilded Age, an era of tremendous transformation in American society...Yet for all her reservations about New York, Wharton...continued to set most of her books and stories here--in a remembered New York and what she imagined to be the New York of her parents and grandparents. The city became for her a social topography and a deep vein to be mined, both a real place and a symbolic landscape." -The New York Times (Charles McGrath) "Mrs. Wharton had her turf, that almost forgotten sepia New York, to be turned over and over again, like setting the plow to the family farm every spring." -Elizabeth Hardwick, The New York Review of Books "Edith Wharton, whose deft portraits of the upper class are taken as definitive accounts of the late 19th century, remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York." -The New York Times (Christopher Gray)* "New York City, the setting of Wharton's finest fictions..." -The New York Observer