BRIETMarketplace
Purchase digital books for libraries, for patrons, forever.
Not a librarian? Send this page on to your local library. We are BRIET, and our mission is to sell ebooks to libraries, so they can be loaned freely to you.
The Old Maid
"This story is not about a bygone society’s oppressive strictures, but, rather, about its piecemeal accommodation of subversive actions and vehement passions." - Krithika Varagur The Old Maid is the second novella in Wharton's 1924 quartet Old New York; each story in the collection represents a decade in ""Old New York"" society from the 1840s to the 1870s. In this novella (originally subtitled ""The Fifties""), Delia and Charlotte conspire to raise Charlotte's secret daughter without activating suspicion within their exacting, closed social circle. Wharton expertly digs into her characters and the social contradictions they exploit to protect their family in a story that is as biting as it is tender and, at times, triumphant. Foreword: Krithika Varagur, an author, award-winning journalist, speechwriter, and editor at The Drift. Cover: Petra Zehner, East West German graphic artist and writer currently based in France."
Order: $0 →
Your institution may freely loan to patrons: you own the file.
MARC record ↓
For integration into library cataloging systems