New Year's Day (The 'Seventies): Old New York

by Edith Wharton

Overview

Lizzie Hazeldean's story "New Year's Day" is one of four new novels of old New York from the pen of the distinguished author of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth." The most important publishing event of 1924 is this in which Mrs. Wharton portrays the decades from 1840 to 1880 through a series of deeply moving life stories. No one else can depict so faithfully the social life of the latter half of the nineteenth century; no one can write more movingly of the romance and tragedy of human life. And the richest charm of Edith Wharton is in this striking series.

The 'Seventies
NEW YEAR'S DAY"

Society in the 'Seventies could not doubt Lizzie Hazeldean's sin -— nor condone it. But that was only another phase of the great sacrifice she was willing to make for love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663520333
Publisher:	Dapper Moose Entertainment
Publication date:	06/22/2020
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Edith Wharton (Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. "The Age of Innocence" (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. The three fiction judges—literary critic Stuart Pratt Sherman, literature professor Robert Morss Lovett, and novelist Hamlin Garland—voted to give the prize to Sinclair Lewis for his satire "Main Street," but Columbia University's advisory board, led by conservative university president Nicholas Murray Butler, overturned their decision and awarded the prize to "The Age of Innocence." She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928, and 1930.

Date of Birth:

January 24, 1862

Date of Death:

August 11, 1937

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

Education:

Educated privately in New York and Europe