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Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2011-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590174364 |
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These 20 short stories and novellas offer an exquisite portrait of Old New York, spanning from the Civil War through the Gilded Age (New York Times). “Edith Wharton . . . remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York.” —New York Times Edith 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. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton 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. 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.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143106554 |
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For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in fiction that often hinges on the collision of personal passion and social convention. This volume brings together her best-loved novels, all set in New York. The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, who needs a rich husband but refuses to marry without both love and money. The Custom of the Country follows the marriages and affairs of Undine Spragg, who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence concerns the passionate bond that develops between the newly engaged Newland Archer and his finacée's cousin, the Countess Olenska, new to New York and newly divorced. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Félix Fénéon |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2011-08-17 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1590174194 |
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A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious Félix Fénéon. Dandy, anarchist, and critic of genius, the discoverer of Georges Seurat and the first French publisher of James Joyce, Fénéon carefully maintained his own anonymity, toiling for years as an obscure clerk in the French War Department. Novels in Three Lines is his secret chef-d’oeuvre, a work of strange and singular art that brings back the long-ago year of 1906 with the haunting immediacy of a photograph while looking forward to such disparate works as Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Death and Disaster series of Andy Warhol.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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No one chronicled old New York better than turn-of-the-century novelist Edith Wharton. Here are four Wharton classics that demonstrate her sparkling writing and seemingly effortless mastery of her subject--a New York that has all but vanished. Includes THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, OLD NEW YORK, and THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY.
Author | : Phillip Lopate |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : American prose literature |
ISBN | : 0671042351 |
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"Wherever you go in New York, you walk through somebody's literary turf. . . . In Phillip Lopate's excellent anthology . . . . what really shines . . . is the journalism."--Garrison Keillor, "The New York Times Book Review."
Author | : Jim Lewis |
Publisher | : West Virginia University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2021-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781949199963 |
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Literary novel with a New York setting and a dash of speculative fiction, for fans of Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, and Dana Spiotta. Ghosts of New York is a novel in which the laws of time and space have been subtly suspended. It interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th Street; a graduate student, his romantic partner, and his best friend entangled in a set of relationships with far-reaching personal and political repercussions; and a shopkeeper suffering from first love late in life. Mixing prophecy, history, and a hint of speculative fiction, its stories are bound together even as they are propelled into stranger territory. And undergirding it all is a song, which appears, disappears, and then resurfaces. Ghosts of New York explores complex lives through indelible renderings of settings-a bar, a night market, a recording studio-that alternate between familiar and unsettling. The work of a celebrated novelist and veteran of the art, film, and music scenes in New York and Austin (described as "a rare talent" by the New York Times and "a powerful literary voice" by Jeffrey Eugenides), this novel will immediately absorb readers intrigued by creative people and the places that sustain and challenge them.
Author | : Francis Spufford |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1501163876 |
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Originally published: Great Britain: Faber & Faber, 2016.
Author | : Stephanie Gangi |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1643751271 |
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"A woman looks back at the events that shaped her life, especially the scandals and family secrets that stand in the way of her making peace with her past"--
Author | : Marshall Berman |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781861893383 |
Download New York Calling Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Acclaimed historian Berman and journalist Berger gather a stellar group of writers and photographers who combine their energies to weave a rich tale of New York Citys struggle, excitement, and wonder.
Author | : John Seabrook |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2001-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0375704515 |
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From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the radical convergence of marketing and culture. In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commercial and mass-produced. Those distinctions have been eradicated by a new cultural landscape where “good” means popular, where artists show their work at K-Mart, Titantic becomes a bestselling classical album, and Roseanne Barr guest edits The New Yorker: in short, a culture of Nobrow. Combining social commentary, memoir, and profiles of the potentates and purveyors of pop culture–entertainment mogul David Geffen, MTV President Judy McGrath, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nobrow high-priest George Lucas, and others–Seabrook offers an enthralling look at our breakneck society where culture is ruled by the unpredictable Buzz and where even aesthetic worth is measured by units shipped.