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Bunner Sisters

by Wharton Edith

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The novel of Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, takes place in New York, 1916. It is a story of two sisters, Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner, who are quite happy to run a “very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a sidestreet already doomed to decline”; a story of the destruction of their regular quiet life. They are to face the real world outside of the little shop.Not without air of mystery, it is a wonderful read on the socio-economic hard times and people relationships.

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...swept up the table-cloth. A few moments later the back room was in its usual flawless order andthe two sisters had seated themselves near the lamp. Ann Eliza had takenup her sewing, and Evelina was preparing to make artificial flowers. The sisters usually relegated this more delicate business to the longleisure of the summer months; but to-night Evelina had brought out thebox which lay all winter under the bed, and spread before her a brightarray of muslin petals, yellow stamens and green corollas, and a tray oflittle implements curiously suggestive of the dental art. Ann Eliza madeno remark on this unusual proceeding; perhaps she guessed why, for thatevening her sister had chosen a graceful task. Presently a knock on the outer door made them look up; but Evelina, thefirst on her feet, said promptly: "Sit still. I'll see who it is. "Ann Eliza was glad to sit still: the baby's petticoat that she wasstitching shook in her fingers. "Sister, here's Mr. Ramy come to look at the clock, "...