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Edith Wharton's French Riviera / Philippe Collas, Eric Villedary.
LIBRA - Special DC608.3 .C59 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collas, Philippe.
- Standardized Title:
- Côte d'Azur au temps d'Edith Wharton. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- Riviera (France)--Description and travel.
- Riviera (France).
- Riviera (France)--Social life and customs.
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Homes and haunts--France--Riviera.
- Wharton, Edith.
- Riviera (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Homes.
- Intellectual life.
- Manners and customs.
- Travel.
- France--Riviera.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 149 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Paris] : Flammarion, [2002]
- Summary:
- Edith Wharton's love affair with the French Riviera began in 1919, and continued to the end of her days. She found there a microcosm of the sort of society that had always fascinated her, that she described in her classic novels. Between the two world wars, the whole region was a playground for film stars, magnates, and princesses: her neighbors included Wallis Simpson, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, and Dorothy Parker. For Edith Wharton, the Riviera was at once a haven where she could write to her heart's content, and a terrifyingly superficial world.
- This fascinating book is a study of this world as it existed when Edith Wharton arrived, and how the region changed over the years. Richly illustrated with both contemporary and vintage photographs, it is a hugely evocative portrait of the Golden Age of the Riviera. Edith Wharton on the Riviera is a rare treat: a taste of the fabulous lifestyle of the privileged classes that has now vanished forever.
- Contents:
- The age of innocence (before 1919)
- The Invention of the Cote d'Azur
- Peaceful Colonization
- A Taste for Exotica
- Fashions and Fantasies
- Across the Pond
- The Belle Epoque
- The End of an Era
- The gods arrive (1919-1930)
- Between Two Worlds
- The Gatsby Years
- The Last Nabobs
- Larger than Life
- Tea Beneath the Palm Trees
- Old and New
- The house of mirth (1930 ...)
- Party Time
- Mr. and Mrs. Simpson
- Between Dreams and Reality
- Brave New World
- To the Present.
- Notes:
- "Translated from the French by Susan Pickford."
- Includes bibliographical references (page 151).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Collas, Philippe. Côte d'Azur au temps d'Edith Wharton. English. Edith Wharton's French Riviera.
- ISBN:
- 2080107224 :
- 9782080107220
- OCLC:
- 50268776
- Online:
- Publisher description
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