Old New York: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, New Year’s Day

Old New York: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, New Year’s Day
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Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton False Dawn (Parts One and Two) (The Forties), The Old Maid (Parts One and Two) (The Fifties), The Spark (The Sixties), and New Year's Day (The Seventies), revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. The novellas are not directly interconnected, though certain fictional characters appear in more than one story. The New York of these stories is the same as the New York of The Age of Innocence (1920), from which several fictional characters have spilled over into these stories. The observation of the manners and morals of 19th century New York upper-class society is directly reminiscent of The Age of Innocence, but these novellas are shaped more as character studies than as a full-blown novel. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York «aristocracy» to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.

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Edith Wharton. Old New York: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, New Year’s Day

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Table of Contents

Old New York: False Dawn

~Part I~ I

II

III

~Part II~ IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

Old New York: The Old Maid

~Part I~ I

II

III

IV

V

~Part II~ VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

Old New York: The Spark

I

II

III

IV

V

Old New York: New Year’s Day

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

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Old New York

~four novels~

.....

In the cove where the Commodore’s sloop had ridden a few hours earlier a biggish rowing-boat took the waking ripples. Young Raycie paddled out to her, fastened his skiff to the moorings, and hastily clambered into the boat.

From various recesses of his pockets he produced rope, string, a carpet-layer’s needle, and other unexpected and incongruous tackle; then, lashing one of the oars across the top of the other, and jamming the latter upright between the forward thwart and the bow, he rigged the flowered bed-quilt on this mast, knotted a rope to the free end of the quilt, and sat down in the stern, one hand on the rudder, the other on his improvised sheet.

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