This small volume gathers five New York stories from Scribner’s. Annie Eliot’s comedietta shows a woman deciding whether to ask an old lover to tea, other tales follow society families and city characters, and the collection closes with “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” Edith Wharton’s first published story, about a lonely widow and the view from her window.
A charming glimpse of 1890s New York, worth it for the early Wharton alone. Download the free EPUB.