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Learn moreThe first of four novellas, together called Old New York, set in the mid-1800s.
Lewis Raycie is sent on a grand tour of Europe with instructions from his father to acquire a collection of accepted Art Works. His father's dream is to own a Raphael; instead, Lewis returns with a priceless collection of Renaissance masterpieces by Piero della Francesca and others of equal stature. They are, however, unknown in America.
His father is appalled and disinherits him. His family ridicules him. But it is only after Lewis dies that the magnificent collection gets the recognition it really deserves.
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born. Educated privately at home and in Europe, she married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker, in 1885. Her marriage was emotionally disappointing, if not disastrous, and she suffered a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894. About this time she began to write fiction. Her major literary model was Henry James, whom she knew, and her work reveals James’ concern for form and ethical issues.
Her novel The Valley of Decision was published in 1902, followed in 1905 by the critical and popular success of The House of Mirth, which established her as a leading writer. After 1907 Wharton lived in France, visiting the United States only at rare intervals. In 1913 she was divorced from her husband.
In the two decades following The House of Mirth, she wrote The Reef (1912), The Custom of the Country (1913), Summer (1917), and the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Age of Innocence (1920). She was the first woman to receive that honor. Her best known work, however, was the long tale Ethan Frome (1911).
She wrote some thirty books in all, including an autobiography, A Backward Glance (1934). She died in France in 1937.
Derek Jacobi is a celebrated actor, having won a Tony® Award for Much Ado About Nothing, and an Emmy® award for Graham Greene's The Tenth Man. Jacobi is perhaps best known for his brilliant portrayal of the Emperor in the miniseries, I Claudius.