| Bunner Sisters Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author), 1st World Publishing (Editor), 1stworld (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421804298 ISBN-13: 9781421804293 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $10.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.40 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the days when New York's traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show-window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine population of the quarter bordering on Stuyvesant Square. It was a very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a side-street already doomed to decline; and from the miscellaneous display behind the window-pane, and the brevity of the sign surmounting it (merely "Bunner Sisters" in blotchy gold on a black ground) it would have been difficult for the uninitiated to guess the precise nature of the business carried on within. But that was of little consequence, since its fame was so purely local that the customers on whom its existence depended were almost congenitally aware of the exact range of "goods" to be found at Bunner Sisters'. |