{"product_id":"the-new-york-stories-of-edith-wharton-new-york-review-books-classics","title":"The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (New York Review Books Classics)","description":"A New York Review Books Original\n\nEdith 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nIlluminated 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1590172485\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1590172485.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Robinson, Roxana|Wharton, Edith\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516004835386,"sku":"DBV.1590172485.A","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1590172485-0.jpg?v=1783713273","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-new-york-stories-of-edith-wharton-new-york-review-books-classics","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}