Bunner Sisters

"Bunner Sisters," written in 1892 but not published until 1916 in Xingu and Other Stories, takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sisters, Ann Eliza the elder, and Evelina the younger, keep a small shop selling artificial flowers and small handsewn articles to Stuyvesant Square's "female population."

Ann Eliza gives Evelina a clock for her birthday. The clock leads the sisters to become involved with Herbert Ramy, owner of "the queerest little store you ever laid eyes on." Soon Ramy is a regular guest of the Bunner sisters, who realize that their "treadmill routine," once so comfortable, is now "intolerably monotonous."

• Author
• Edith Wharton

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 136

• Publisher
• 1st World Library - Literary Society

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781421804293

• Characters
• Ann Eliza Bunner, Evelina Bunner, Herman Ramy, Miss Mellins, Mrs Hochmuller

• Settings
• New York City, New York

• Genres
• classics, fiction, american, womens, novella

• Release date
• 2005