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Edith Wharton's Letters From the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing
by Waid, Candace
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807843024
- ISBN 13
- 9780807843024
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Candace Waid presents an innovative reading of the work of Edith Wharton, examining her lifelong preoccupation with the place of the American woman writer. Waid offers a detailed interpretation of some of Wharton's works-the House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Artemis to Actaeon, and others. Glossy, bright, clean wrappers with illustration of "Portrait of Mrs. Lloyd" by Sir Joshia Reynolds. Light wear to edges, faint scratch near lower edge. Very clean, tight and solid glued binding. Internals in Fine codition. 237 pages. 9 x 6 inches. 1990, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002168
- Title
- Edith Wharton's Letters From the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing
- Author
- Waid, Candace
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0807843024
- ISBN 13
- 9780807843024
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill and London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, 19TH-20TH CENTURY WHARTON, EDITH. 1862-1937 WOMEN AND LITERATURE
- X weight
- 0 oz
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