{"product_id":"the-new-york-stories-of-edith-wharton-isbn-9781590172483","title":"The New York Stories of Edith Wharton","description":"\u003cb\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 divorcées struggling to hold their own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.TABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Mrs. Manstey's View\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Good May Come\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Portrait\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A Cup of Cold Water\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A Journey\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Rembrandt\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Other Two\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Quicksand\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Dilettante\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Reckoning\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Expiation\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Pot-Boiler\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e His Father's Son\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Full Circle\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Autres Temps . . . \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Long Run\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e After Holbein\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Diagnosis\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Pomegranate Seed\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Roman Fever“If these stories have a defining subject (other than New York) it is divorce, which begins to replace art as Wharton's excuse for discussing the fashionable and the real. In fact, one of the pleasures of a collection like this is that you can trace her tendencies in it? and the way they develop.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher Gray, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wharton was Old New York . . . [her family] belonged to that tiny but powerful New York clan . . . who 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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Charles McGrath, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mrs. Wharton had her turf, that almost sepia New York, to be turned over and over again, like setting the plow to the family farm every spring.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Elizabeth Hardwick, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“New York City [is] the setting of Wharton’s finest fictions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“In both stories [“Mrs. Manstey’s View” and “Roman Fever”], and in the intervening 18 that compromise this collection, we find women observing the world from a distance, restrained by the extraordinarily elaborate codes of behaviour that govern well-to-do, turn-of-the-century New York. But also women surprising themselves, and us, with the intensity of their feelings and desires, and the ingenuity with which they’ll circumnavigate in order to express them. Where passions smoulder at length in Wharton’s novels, her stories zero in on the moments of eruption. Always, though, in the most elegantly crystalline and coolly ironic prose.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spanning 40 years (1891-1934), these 20 tales of low passions and high society show off Wharton at her forensic and acerbic best. Divorce, adultery, bankruptcy: the misdeeds that undermine gentility in the brownstones of the Manhattan rich alter, but the fear and fragility behind all the charm do not. To rebels, bolters or swindlers, these plush parlours may be prisons; but, after expulsion, they glow “with the glamor of sword-barred Edens.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Let’s do this the way Edith Wharton’s publicist would do it: ‘Steeped in Manhattan high society, Edith Wharton has a unique perspective on the lavish parties, debauched bachelors and vicious women of a certain age who prowl the penthouses of Manhattan . . . All true. Except since \u003ci\u003eThe New York Stories of Edith Wharton\u003c\/i\u003e spans the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the indiscretions within are a lot more nuanced than in, say, \u003ci\u003eGossip Girl\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eL Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301865378021,"sku":"NP9781590172483","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590172483.jpg?v=1767740691","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-new-york-stories-of-edith-wharton-isbn-9781590172483","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}