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 Innocence" 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 seriesThe 'Sixties THE SPARK Hayley Delane, of the fashionable set of New York and Newport, is inexplicably out of tune with his surroundings. Even to his best friend his actions are a puzzle until the secret influence is explained.
