Cities in Literature: New York

Welcome to the Jazz Age in the Big Smoke. Or the Big Apple. Whatever you want to call it, just make sure your stockings are tight and your hat is held high!

We’ll start our journey exploring high society in Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’ before attending the most dazzling and daring party of them all in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’.

While Henry James’ ´Washington Square´ will see interfering fathers attempt to thwart the path of love, we'll encounter two very different vi...