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
Length363h 30m
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
Length363 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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
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