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Classic Love Stories

New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)

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    Edith Wharton's New Year's Day (The 'Seventies) is a classic romance novel. Key subjects include married women, widows and man-woman relationships.

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    About New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)

    "New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)" by Edith Wharton is a novella published in 1924 as part of the "Old New York" collection. Set in 1870s upper-class New York society, it explores the manners and morals of a vanished world. Like its companion novellas and "The Age of Innocence," it offers keen social observation and character study of New York's elite. The story shares characters and settings with Wharton's other New York tales, creating an interconnected portrait of nineteenth-century high society.
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    Themes, setting & tropes

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    • New York, N.Y., Social life and customs
    • Married women
    • Widows
    • Man-woman relationships

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    Who wrote New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)?

    New Year's Day (The 'Seventies) was written by Edith Wharton.

    What genre is New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)?

    It is usually shelved as Classic Love Stories.

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    Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

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