New York Narratives: A 40-Book Library of Old New York Stories & Novels
Forty Tales of Gilded Age Society, Immigrant Life, Tenements, and Wall StreetBy Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Horatio Jr. Alger, Edgar Fawcett, Grace Livingston Hill, H. C. Witwer, Myra Kelly, Clara Morris, Louis Tracy, Basil King, Arthur Stringer, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Montague Glass, Emma Speed Sampson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Cosmo Hamilton, Robert W. Chambers, H. C. Bunner, Louis Joseph Vance, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Anthony Hope, John Bell Bouton, Gilbert Parker, George Barr McCutcheon, Owen Johnson, Ernest Poole, Lemuel Ely Quigg
Length364h 24m
About this audiobook
New York Narratives gathers a capacious archive of imagined city life, tracing Old New York through social realism, domestic fiction, romance, melodrama, crime adventure, satire, and tales of aspiration. Its range moves from the moral pressures of wealth and class to immigrant encounter, theatrical culture, commercial ambition, and the changing architecture of urban desire. Canonical visions of privilege and exclusion stand beside popular narratives of courtship, hustle, mystery, and social mobility, making the volume an unusually rich record of the city's literary afterlives. The collection brings together writers associated with American realism and naturalism, the Gilded Age, Progressive-era social observation, popular magazine fiction, and transatlantic romance. Melville, Stowe, Dreiser, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Glasgow, and Poole contribute sharply differing engagements with power, conscience, and modernity, while Alger, Burnett, Chambers, Glass, and others illuminate the conventions through which broad audiences imagined urban success and belonging. Across these varied careers, New York emerges not as a single setting but as a contested cultural symbol. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers alike, this forty-book library offers the rare opportunity to read elite and popular traditions in sustained dialogue. Its breadth invites comparative study of genre, class, gender, ethnicity, and urban change, while rewarding readers with a vibrant multiplicity of voices and narrative forms.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length364 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Tales of Old New York: A 40-Book Collection
26New Year’s Day
2Old New York
27Age of Innocence
3False Dawn
28Book I (pt. 1)
4Part 1.
29Book I (pt. 2)
52.
30Book I (pt. 3)
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31Book II (pt. 1)
7Part 2.
32Book II (pt. 2)
85.
33Book II (pt. 3)
96.
34The House of Mirth
107.
35BOOK ONE (pt. 1)
118.
36BOOK ONE (pt. 2)
129.
37BOOK ONE (pt. 3)
13The Old Maid
38BOOK ONE (pt. 4)
14Part 1.
39BOOK TWO (pt. 1)
152.
40BOOK TWO (pt. 2)
163.
41BOOK TWO (pt. 3)
174.
42The Beautiful and Damned
185.
43Book One (pt. 1)
19Part 2.
44Book One (pt. 2)
207.
45Book Two (pt. 1)
218.
46Book Two (pt. 2)
229.
47Book Two (pt. 3)
2310.
48Book Three (pt. 1)
2411.
49Book Three (pt. 2)
25The Spark
50Bartleby the Scrivener. A Story of Wall-Street
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