Tales of Old New York: A 40-Book Collection
Forty Classic Stories of Gilded Age Ambition, Tenement Life, Romance, and Urban ReinventionBy Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 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
Tales of Old New York: A 40-Book Collection assembles a capacious literary portrait of the city as metropolis, social theatre, immigrant crossroads, and imagined stage for ambition. Across realism, sentimental romance, adventure, detective fiction, satire, melodrama, and tales of upward mobility, the volume traces changing urban manners and class relations. Its memorable contrasts—between drawing rooms and crowded streets, inherited privilege and commercial aspiration—make New York itself the collection's most compelling protagonist. The contributors bring together major figures of American realism and naturalism with popular novelists, dramatists, journalists, and writers of domestic and historical fiction. Their varied careers illuminate the literary marketplace that accompanied New York's rise from nineteenth-century mercantile center to modern mass-cultural capital. Voices attentive to gender, migration, wealth, labor, childhood, and social performance converge with narratives shaped by Gilded Age critique, Progressive-era concern, and the enduring romance of the American city. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking many New Yorks rather than a single canonical image. It invites comparison among high literary experiment and popular forms, revealing how distinct genres register shared pressures of modern urban life. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find an expansive archive of styles and perspectives, whose internal dialogue enriches the history of American fiction.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length364 hrs 24 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Twenty Tales by Twenty Women
26CHAPTER XXXI
2The House of Mirth
27CHAPTER XXXV
3BOOK ONE (pt. 1)
28CHAPTER XL
4BOOK ONE (pt. 2)
29Little Citizens
5BOOK ONE (pt. 3)
30A LITTLE MATTER OF REAL ESTATE
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6BOOK ONE (pt. 4)
31LOVE AMONG THE BLACKBOARDS
7BOOK TWO (pt. 1)
32H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF HESTER STREET
8BOOK TWO (pt. 2)
33A PASSPORT TO PARADISE
9BOOK TWO (pt. 3)
34T. Tembarom
10Sister Carrie
35CHAPTER I:
11Chapter I (pt. 1)
36CHAPTER III
12Chapter I (pt. 2)
37CHAPTER V
13Chapter I (pt. 3)
38CHAPTER VII
14Chapter I (pt. 4)
39CHAPTER X
15Chapter I (pt. 5)
40CHAPTER XIII
16Chapter I (pt. 6)
41CHAPTER XIV
17Chapter I (pt. 7)
42CHAPTER XVI
18Chapter I (pt. 8)
43CHAPTER XVIII
19His Family
44CHAPTER XX
20CHAPTER I
45CHAPTER XXII
21CHAPTER V
46CHAPTER XXV
22CHAPTER VIII
47CHAPTER XXVII
23CHAPTER XIV
48CHAPTER XXX
24CHAPTER XVIII
49CHAPTER XXXII
25CHAPTER XXV
50CHAPTER XXXIV
Italian Villas and Their Gardens (Annotated)Edith Wharton5h 54m$2 · $0.00
Mr. Jones (Annotated)Edith Wharton2h 37m$2 · $0.00
Old New York (Annotated)Edith Wharton10h 18m$2 · $0.00
Edith Wharton: New Year's Day, False Dawn, The Old Maid & The Spark (4 Books in One Edition) (Annotated)Edith Wharton10h 20m$2 · $0.00
The Children (Annotated)Edith Wharton12h 12m$2 · $0.00
French Ways and Their Meaning (Annotated)Edith Wharton4h 19m$2 · $0.00
The Age of Innocence (Annotated)Edith Wharton13h 4m$2 · $0.00
Gesammelte Werke (Kommentiert)Edith Wharton59h 52m$2 · $0.00
Old New York (Annotated)Edith Wharton10h 20m$2 · $0.00
The Age of Innocence & Old New York (Annotated)Edith Wharton21h 49m$2 · $0.00
קיץEdith Wharton6h 50m$12 · $0.00
VersesEdith Wharton1h 23m$2 · $0.00
SummerEdith Wharton7h 31m$1 · $0.00
Old New YorkEdith Wharton10h 21m$1 · $0.00
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other StoriesEdith Wharton4h 53m$2 · $0.00
La sombra de la dudaEdith Wharton3h 4m$12 · $0.00
The Old Maid (The 'Fifties)Edith Wharton2h 48m$2 · $0.00
The Bolted DoorEdith Wharton1h 50m$2 · $0.00
In MoroccoEdith Wharton7h 12m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Unabridged)Jane Austen88h 8m5.0 (1)$1 · $0.00
Desperate MeasuresBrenda Jackson8h 59m5.0 (1)$28 · $0.00
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m$20
Naughty 4Brenda Hampton7h 30m$17
The Dance with Me TrilogyShelley Shepard Gray21h 44m$35
Anne Shirley (Complete 14 Book Collection)Lucy Maud Montgomery125h 28m$2 · $0.00
The DopemanJaQuavis Coleman5h 25m$20
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
BAEJahquel J.5h 22m$20
Dark RisingJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 47m$27
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.5 (26)$29 · $0.00
Grand Opening 2Carl Weber9h 16m$20
Sons of Valor II: Violence of ActionBrian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson12h 34m$23
Malevolent MagicMildred Abbott7h 13m$17
Bikes, Toys, and Hot BoyzGenesis Woods, Shantaé13h 9m$23
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m$2 · $0.00
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m$33 · $0.00
Ghetto BastardK’wan7h 37m$20
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m$18 · $0.00
The Vineyard BrideKatie Winters5h 5m$15
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