Wharton, Edith             <br/><br/>
The spark  (The 'sixties) 
Edith Wharton; Decorations by E. C. Caswell 
 - New York  D. Appleton & Company  1924 
 - 108 p. 
 - Her Old New York.  v. 3 . <br/><br/>  Illustrated lining-papers. 
<br/><br/> A novel New York society in the 1860's. It focuses on Hayley Delane, who was a schoolboy when the Civil War started. He ran off to join the war and later married Leila Gracy, daughter of old Bill Gracy, a drinker and gambler of ill repute. The narrator observes that Hayley Delane seems to belong to a different age, trying to guess whether he would fit in better as a Roman or a Greek or some other ancient European. Leila alternates between being devoted to Hayley and devoted to affairs with other men. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social conditions.<br/>Domestic fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Social conditions --New York (N.Y.) --19th century
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Wha   2