Writing New York
Subtitle: A Literary Anthology
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: April 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1056
ISBN-13: 9780671042356
Subjects: Modern fiction; Women Authors; Literary collections; City life; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; New York (State); Literature: Classics; New York; Anthologies (multiple authors); Literary; Fiction / Literary; City and town life; American prose literature; New York (stad); gtt
First sentence: THE ISLAND of Manna-hata, Manhattoes, or as it is vulgarly called Manhattan, having been discovered, as was related in the last chapter; and being unanimously pronounced by the discoverers, the fairest spot in the known world, whereon to build a city, that should surpass all the emporiums of Europe, they immediately returned to Communipaw with the pleasing intelligence.