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"Edith Wharton’s acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman. A Penguin Vitae Edition Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May’s cousin, the beautiful and exotic Countess Ellen Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The...
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A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
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When Truman Capote gains access to New York high society, he builds an unlikely friendship with socialite Babe Paley.
Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages ofVogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends—the alluring socialite Swans Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela...
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Random House
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1948
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IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
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The novel gives an excellent picture of New York "society" in the 1870's, the age of propriety and inexorable convention and of clan spirit and tribal solidarity in support of prescribed amenities. A woman who has incurred scandal is loved by a man who has sufficient vision to penetrate the crust of conventionality but has not quite the courage to break with the conventions.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2022]
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"Among New York City's Gilded Age elite, one family will defy convention. When their father gambles away the family fortune on an elevated railroad, his daughters Jemima and Alice must navigate polite society during the rise and fall of their family, each forced to reexamine who she is, and even who she is meant to love."--
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The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded.
"A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century—now with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning...
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