Edith Wharton : a biography / R. W. B. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, R. W. B. (Richard Warrington Baldwin)

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Harper colophon books ; CN 554.

Harper colophon books ; CN 554

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Wharton, Edith.

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

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 592 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First Harper Colophon edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; San Francisco ; London : Harper & Row, Publisher,s, [1977]

Contents:

Old New York: 1862-1890

The Writing of Fiction: 1891-1905

Paris and M.F.: 1906-1909

The Neurasthenic: 1909-1913

The War Years: 1913-1918

The Possesive Years: 1919-1937

Appendixes.

Notes:

"Designed by C. Linda Dingler."

"First Harper Colophon edition published 1977."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Winner of The Bancroft Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize"--Cover.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1977".

Other Format:

Online version: Lewis, R.W.B. (Richard Warrington Baldwin). Edith Wharton.

ISBN:

0060905549

9780060905545

OCLC:

20213471