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Edith Wharton / Hermione Lee.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3545.H16 Z695 2007
Available from offsite location
- 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, genealogical table ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First United States 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:
- 1 An American in Paris 3
- 2 Making Up 10
- 3 Pussy Jones 46
- 4 Italian Backgrounds 78
- 5 The Decoration of Houses 120
- 6 The Republic of Letters 159
- 7 Obligations 192
- 8 The Legend 212
- 9 Friends in England 233
- 10 Mme Warthon 265
- 11 L'Ame Close 308
- 12 La Demanderesse 361
- 13 Getting What You Want 402
- 14 Fighting France 444
- 15 Une Seconde Patrie 470
- 16 Pavillon/Chateau 523
- 17 The Age of Innocence 565
- 18 Jazz 606
- 19 A Private Library 668
- 20 All Souls' 717
- Edith Wharton's Family Tree 763.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [765]-835) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780375400049
- 0375400044
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