Edith Wharton Abroad
Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920
by Edith Wharton
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan |
Date 1996 |
Price $4.80 |
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan |
Date 1995 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Thorndike Pr |
Date 1996 |
Price $5.47 |
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Publisher Notes
These carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing convey the writer's control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the "parentheses of travel"--the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. Included is an excerpt from Wharton's unpublished memoir, The Cruise of Vanadis, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I. Photos.
Media Reviews
"Edith Wharton's reputation as a novelist is at a peak, but her travel writing has been neglected. This volume does something to remedy the fact...These are the writings of a strong-willed, individual woman completely uninterested in 'given' ideas about places and people, and capable of judgements which are as interesting and true to us as they were surprising and doubtful to her contemporaries."
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