Name: Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920
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Author: Wharton, Edith ; Wright, Sarah Bird
ISBN: 9780312161200

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Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Illustrated by

Sarah Bird Wright

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Year

1996

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

0312161204

ISBN13

9780312161200

Synopsis "Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920 "

In EDITH WHARTON ABROAD, Sarah Bird Wright has carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing that convey the writer's control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the parentheses of travel - the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. This collection spans a period of three decades and takes the reader with Wharton from France to Italy and to Greece. Included is an excerpt from her unpublished memoir, THE CRUISE OF THE VANDIS, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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