Publisher's Synopsis
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 Inocence" 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 'SeventiesNEW 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.
