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20 classic 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.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004J4WNGC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ NYRB Classics (August 17, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 17, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 739 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 488 pages
Reviewer: Cordelia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Classic Edith Wharton
Review: This is a wonderful read consisting of four stories from four decades, told sequentially. It gives such a flavor for the times, and for the changes within the society over four decades. As always, Edith Wharton's writing is wonderfully descriptive and her characters very real. If you are new to Edith Wharton, this is a good sampler. But it will become an old friend to those who have read other books by her.

Reviewer: KateTall
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I love Edith Wharton, but these left me a lttle flat...
Review: In such short pages, you can't get a lot of character development, so I was left a little empty. Plus, it's very difficult to feel the import of some of the "indiscretions" that the characters fall prey to, which in our time don't even raise an eyebrow! Still, Wharton's writing is superb, and her ability to catch that eyebrow lift by a smart turn of phrase is why she stands the test of time!

Reviewer: Louise D. Somes
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It’s Edith Wharton. What’s not to like?
Review: I bought this as a gift for a friend who is a lover of New York City.Since the author of the stories is Edith Wharton, who was an exquisite writer, I know this book will be well received

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
Review: I have this one, have not started reading it yet though. I have read many of Edith Wharton's books though and have really enjoyed them immensely. Several of hers have been put on PBS as productions, they were very good!!

Reviewer: Raymond A. Souza
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Read
Review: If you like Edith Wharton like I do, this is a candy store of tales written in brilliant prose. The collection of stories also spans her career as a writer and the dramatic changes in society during her lifetime. I really loved this book.

Reviewer: David W. Nicholas
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: All of her New York stories collected together
Review: Edith Wharton isn't perhaps as well-known as Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, or Henry James, but she was in her day an influential novelist and short story writer, producing such works as Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and The Age of Innocence. This collection of short stories, together for the first time, shows her progression as a writer and her regard for the city of New York, where she grew up.Most of the stories presented here are relatively short, about 20 pages or fewer, and some are downright brief. Wharton had an interesting way of constructing characters, so that things didn't really need to happen much in order for the story to progress logically, and she had a sometimes maddening habit of letting a story just waft away, without actually seemingly finishing it. I think were she alive today, and a fan of the Sopranos, she'd have appreciated the ending a lot more than fans of the show did.I'm not Wharton's biggest fan, but I like her better than James, for instance, and she had less of a point of view than either Hemingway or Scott Fitzgerald (at least it's less evident to me). I generally enjoyed this collection, and would recommend it to fans of Wharton, if no one else.

Reviewer: margaret williamson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect!
Review: A gift for a friend, who hadn't read one of the stories. Perfect!

Reviewer: Zorsie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Edith Wharton is one of the finest fiction writers ever. What more need be said?

Reviewer: Nilanjana
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excellent short stories. I cannot explain how much I loved the first short story. The author is excellent in her prose writing and does an excellent job of sketching vivid scenes that take you deep into the scenes. The author understands human psychology very well and this is graspable in each and every story. The stories are deeply evocative and the prose highly creative. I truly recommend this collection to any literary adept or readers of short stories.Truly beautifulLanguage. They create very deep impressions in one’s mind.