{"product_id":"the-new-york-stories-of-edith-wharton-paperback","title":"The New York Stories of Edith Wharton - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdith Wharton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRoxana Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eRoxana Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Compiled by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops' nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorc es struggling to hold their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Stories of Edith Wharton\u003c\/i\u003e gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton's career. From her first published story, \"Mrs. Manstey's View,\" to one of her last and most celebrated, \"Roman Fever,\" this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Illuminated by Roxana Robinson's Introduction, these stories showcase Wharton's astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdith Wharton\u003c\/b\u003e (1862--1937) published more than forty volumes of novels, short stories, verse, essays, travel books, and memoirs. She was born into a distinguished New York family and was educated privately in the United States and abroad. Among her best-known work is \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoxana Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the three novels \u003ci\u003eSweetwater\u003c\/i\u003e, (2003) \u003ci\u003eThis Is My Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, (1998) and \u003ci\u003eSummer Light\u003c\/i\u003e (1988); the three short story collections \u003ci\u003eA Perfect Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e, (2005) \u003ci\u003eAsking for Love\u003c\/i\u003e, (1996) \u003ci\u003eA Glimpse of Scarlet\u003c\/i\u003e, (1991) and the biography\u003ci\u003e Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e, (1989). Four of these were named Notable Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Robinson's fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper's\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City and Westchester County, New York.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 488\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 09, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47399174340786,"sku":"9781590172483","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/0c0ba2b6d3841304210e0c0135a9df64.webp?v=1778066506","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-new-york-stories-of-edith-wharton-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}