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A motor-flight through France / Edith Wharton ; introduction by Mary Suzanne Schriber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, author.
- Schriber, Mary Suzanne, 1938- author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Homes and haunts--France.
- Wharton, Edith.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--France.
- Authors, American.
- France--Description and travel.
- France.
- France--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- DeKalb, Illinois : Northern Illinois University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shedding the turn-of-the-century social confines she felt existed for women in America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. In A Motor-Flight Through France, originally published in 1908, Wharton combines the power of her prose, her love for travel, and her affinity for France to produce this compelling travelogue. Now back in print, this edition of will interest students of American literature as well as those who wish to see France through the eyes of a great American writer. The introduction analyzes Wharton's use of the genre of travel writing and places Wharton's work in the context of her life and times.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Illustration List""; ""Preface""; ""Note on the Text""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I""; ""I. Boulogne to Amiens""; ""II. Beauvais and Rouen""; ""III. From Rouen to Fontainebleau""; ""IV. The Loire and the Indre""; ""V. Nohant to Clermont""; ""VI. In Auvergne""; ""VII. Royat to Bourges""; ""PART II""; ""I. Paris to Poitiers""; ""II. Poitiers to the Pyrenees""; ""III. The Pyrenees to Provence""; ""IV. The Rhone to the Seine""; ""PART III""; ""A Flight to the North-East""
- Notes:
- Previously published by Northern Illinois University Press in 1991. Originally published: New York : C. Scribner, 1908.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xlvi-l).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-87580-553-1
- 1-60909-071-3
- OCLC:
- 868220672
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