Old New York (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Tales of The Big Apple: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark & New Year's DayBy Edith Wharton
Length10h 17m
About this audiobook
Old New York is Edith Wharton's elegant cycle of four novellas—"False Dawn," "The Old Maid," "The Spark," and "New Year's Day"—each set in a successive decade of nineteenth-century Manhattan, from the 1840s to the 1870s. With her characteristic irony, architectural precision, and moral acuity, Wharton reconstructs a vanished patrician society governed by lineage, etiquette, and repression. The book belongs to the tradition of social realism, yet it has the compression and symbolic resonance of historical fiction, examining how private desire is disciplined by public codes. Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones into the very world she anatomized, possessed both intimacy with and critical distance from old New York's aristocratic order. Her upbringing among its rituals, marriages, drawing rooms, and silences gave her the materials for a lifelong inquiry into class and constraint. By the 1920s, writing from the vantage of expatriation and historical hindsight, she transformed memory into critique. This volume is highly recommended for readers interested in Wharton's mature art, American social history, and fiction of manners sharpened into moral investigation. It offers not nostalgia, but a lucid, beautifully controlled study of how societies preserve themselves by wounding individuals.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the author's life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (4K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, Amazon
GenreLiterary Classics, Historical Fiction
Length10 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 9, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Old New York (Annotated)
25Part 2.
2Introduction
266.
3Author Biography
277.
4Historical Context
288.
5Synopsis (Selection)
299.
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6False Dawn
3010.
7Part 1.
3111.
81.
32The Spark
92.
331
103.
342
11Part 2.
353
124.
364
135.
375
146.
38New Year’s Day
157.
391
168.
402
179.
413
18The Old Maid
424
19Part 1.
435
201.
446
212.
457
223.
46Analysis
234.
47Reflection
245.
48Memorable Quotes
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