FOUR PERIOD STORIES OF OLD NEW YORKA distinct and extremely pleasing innovation is this collection of four new stories by America’s foremost woman fiction writer. Each tells a separate story, but the four cover successive periods in the life of old New York. The society of New York’s earlier days lives again in these four books byEdith WhartonFALSE DAWNThe ’FortiesThe son of an old New York family comes under artistic influences from abroad and acquires tastes and opinions which the New York of the ’Forties can neither understand nor tolerate.THE OLD MAIDThe ’FiftiesBeneath the outwardly respectable fabric of old New York runs this powerfully appealing and dramatic story of two sisters and the daughter of one of these women.THE SPARKThe ’SixtiesA study in influences. The central character is strangely out of tune with his surroundings. As is finally disclosed, this is because he had come under the influence of a great man, a herald of a later time.NEW YEAR’S DAYThe ’SeventiesThe poignant story of Lizzie Hazeldean, ostracized from her social sphere because the New York of the ’Seventies could not comprehend the sacrifice she had made for her husband.Each $1.25. The four, in ornamental period gift box, $5.00D. APPLETON AND COMPANYNew YorkLondon
FOUR PERIOD STORIES OF OLD NEW YORKA distinct and extremely pleasing innovation is this collection of four new stories by America’s foremost woman fiction writer. Each tells a separate story, but the four cover successive periods in the life of old New York. The society of New York’s earlier days lives again in these four books byEdith WhartonFALSE DAWNThe ’FortiesThe son of an old New York family comes under artistic influences from abroad and acquires tastes and opinions which the New York of the ’Forties can neither understand nor tolerate.THE OLD MAIDThe ’FiftiesBeneath the outwardly respectable fabric of old New York runs this powerfully appealing and dramatic story of two sisters and the daughter of one of these women.THE SPARKThe ’SixtiesA study in influences. The central character is strangely out of tune with his surroundings. As is finally disclosed, this is because he had come under the influence of a great man, a herald of a later time.NEW YEAR’S DAYThe ’SeventiesThe poignant story of Lizzie Hazeldean, ostracized from her social sphere because the New York of the ’Seventies could not comprehend the sacrifice she had made for her husband.Each $1.25. The four, in ornamental period gift box, $5.00D. APPLETON AND COMPANYNew YorkLondon
FOUR PERIOD STORIES OF OLD NEW YORK
A distinct and extremely pleasing innovation is this collection of four new stories by America’s foremost woman fiction writer. Each tells a separate story, but the four cover successive periods in the life of old New York. The society of New York’s earlier days lives again in these four books by
Edith Wharton
FALSE DAWNThe ’Forties
The son of an old New York family comes under artistic influences from abroad and acquires tastes and opinions which the New York of the ’Forties can neither understand nor tolerate.
THE OLD MAIDThe ’Fifties
Beneath the outwardly respectable fabric of old New York runs this powerfully appealing and dramatic story of two sisters and the daughter of one of these women.
THE SPARKThe ’Sixties
A study in influences. The central character is strangely out of tune with his surroundings. As is finally disclosed, this is because he had come under the influence of a great man, a herald of a later time.
NEW YEAR’S DAYThe ’Seventies
The poignant story of Lizzie Hazeldean, ostracized from her social sphere because the New York of the ’Seventies could not comprehend the sacrifice she had made for her husband.
Each $1.25. The four, in ornamental period gift box, $5.00
D. APPLETON AND COMPANYNew YorkLondon