The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city written over the course of Whartons career. From the first published story Mrs. Manstey... » 

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city written over the course of Whartons career. From the first published story Mrs. Mansteys View to one of her last and most celebrated Roman Fever this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work among them the meaning of marriage the struggle for artistic integrity the bonds between parent and child and the plight of the aged. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city written over the course of Whartons career. From the first published story Mrs. Mansteys View to one of her last and most celebrated Roman Fever this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work among them the meaning of marriage the struggle for artistic integrity the bonds between parent and child and the plight of the aged. «