Edith Wharton / Hermione Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Hermione.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Wharton, Edith.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Women intellectuals.

United States.

Women intellectuals--United States--Biography.

Americans--France--History--20th century.

Americans.

France.

History.

World War, 1914-1918--War work--France.

World War, 1914-1918.

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 869 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Summary:

Delving into heretofore untapped sources, the author of the acclaimed masterpiece "Virginia Woolf" brilliantly interweaves Edith Wharton's life with the evolution of her writing, the full scope of which shows her to be far more daring than her stereotype as lapidarian chronicler of the Gilded Age.

Contents:

An American in Paris

Making up

Pussy Jones

Italian backgrounds

The Decoration of Houses

The republic of letters

Obligations

The legend

Friends in England

Mme. Warthon

L'Ame close

La demanderesse

Getting what you want

Fighting France

Une seconde patrie

Pavillon/Chateau

The Age of Innocence

Jazz

A private library

All souls'

Edith Wharton's family tree.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso.

Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, c2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [765]-835) and index.

ISBN:

0375400044

9780375400049

OCLC:

73140273

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