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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old Maid, by Edith Wharton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
The Old Maid is a classic old Edith Wharton (1862-1937) novella first published 1922. A quite melancholic tale about the life and struggles among wealthy women in New York City's fashionable society, and those in the correct and highly regarded big family, the Ralstons, of the mid-1800s.
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Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s.
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Jun 2, 2021 · Analysis of Edith Wharton’s The Old Maid. One of Edith Wharton ’s many stories of New York, this novella was published with the subtitle The ’Fifties in 1924 as the second of four volumes in a set entitled Old New York. The story exemplifies Wharton’s use of irony and realism in depicting characters facing ethical dilemmas.
Feb 2, 2020 · 24011469. Title. The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) Note. Book 2 of "Old New York." Credits. Produced by Chuck Greif, MWS and the Online Distributed.
Jan 23, 2020 · Compared with the Ralstons, even such traditionalists as the Lovells, the Halseys or the Vandergraves appeared careless, indifferent to money, almost reckless in their impulses and indecisions. Old John Frederick Ralston, the stout founder of the race, had perceived the difference, and emphasized it to his son, Frederick John, in whom he had scented a faint leaning toward the untried and ...
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