The Age of Innocence & Old New York (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Tales of The Big Apple: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark & New Year's DayBy Edith Wharton
Length21h 48m
About this audiobook
Bringing together The Age of Innocence and the four novellas of Old New York, this volume offers Edith Wharton's most incisive anatomy of upper-class Manhattan from the 1840s to the 1870s. With poised irony, architectural precision, and a tragicomic command of social ritual, Wharton explores how manners become mechanisms of exclusion, desire is disciplined by convention, and memory transforms vanished worlds into moral evidence. The works stand at the crossroads of realism, psychological fiction, and historical elegy. Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones into the very society she later scrutinized, wrote with the authority of both insider and exile. Her intimate knowledge of old New York's codes—its marriages, drawing rooms, inheritances, and silences—was sharpened by her cosmopolitan life in Europe and by her critical distance from American provincial privilege. These books reflect a writer turning personal inheritance into cultural diagnosis. Readers interested in Henry James, social history, or the literature of moral constraint will find this collection indispensable. It is not merely a portrait of a lost aristocracy, but a profound study of freedom, renunciation, and the costs of belonging.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length21 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
13False Dawn
2Introduction
14Part 1.
3Author Biography
15Part 2.
4Historical Context
16The Old Maid
5Synopsis (Selection)
17Part 1.
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6The Age of Innocence & Old New York
18Part 2.
7Book I (pt. 1)
19The Spark
8Book I (pt. 2)
20New Year’s Day
9Book I (pt. 3)
21Analysis
10Book II (pt. 1)
22Reflection
11Book II (pt. 2)
23Memorable Quotes
12Book II (pt. 3)
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VersesEdith Wharton1h 23m$2 · $0.00
SummerEdith Wharton7h 31m$1 · $0.00
Old New YorkEdith Wharton10h 21m$1 · $0.00
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