{"product_id":"old-new-york-paperback","title":"Old New York - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdith Wharton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst published in 1924, \u003cem\u003eOld New York\u003c\/em\u003e is a sequence of four novellas in which Edith Wharton revisits the moral codes and social structures of nineteenth-century Manhattan.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprising \"False Dawn,\" \"The Old Maid,\" \"The Spark,\" and \"New Year's Day,\" the volume traces successive decades in the life of New York society, examining the tension between inherited custom and emerging modern sensibility. Wharton's attention rests not upon spectacle but upon the quiet pressures exerted by reputation, lineage, and social expectation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach novella centres upon individuals constrained by convention yet compelled toward private moral reckoning. Wharton renders interiors-both architectural and psychological-with measured precision. Beneath formal manners and rigid propriety lie suppressed loyalties, concealed histories, and the enduring conflict between personal desire and communal judgment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn revisiting an earlier New York, Wharton offers neither nostalgia nor indictment, but a controlled examination of the forces that shape identity within a tightly ordered world. The collection stands as a late and reflective work by one of the principal American novelists of the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46117895962810,"sku":"9781515442127","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/5727\/8650\/files\/yXRv2VH5Ia9781515442127.webp?v=1783443937","url":"https:\/\/thebookloversatlas.com\/products\/old-new-york-paperback","provider":"The Book Lover's Atlas","version":"1.0","type":"link"}