Edith Wharton : an extraordinary life
This richly illustrated biography portrays Edith Wharton the writer, traveler, socialite, gardener, architect, interior designer, art scholar, expatriate, war worker, and connoisseur of life. The more than 300 illustrations include photographs--some by Wharton herself--as well as selected drawings, paintings, garden plans, letters, and postcards, many of which have never before been published. A chronology, selected bibliography, and index round out the volume, which re-creates in vivid detail the life of this multi-faceted, extraordinary woman.
Record details
- ISBN: 0810939711
- ISBN: 9780810939714
- ISBN: 0810927950
- ISBN: 9780810927957
- Physical Description: 296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Publisher: New York : Abrams, 1994.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-292) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: Edith Wharton's world -- An exile in New York -- Newport, "this ultra-frivolous milieu" -- Italy, "that sophisticated landscape" -- Lenox: houses and gardens -- "The motor-car has restored the romance of travel" -- A new life in Paris -- The Great War, "a calamity unheard of in human annals" -- Pavillon Colombe -- Hyeres, "So warm, so golden, so full of flowers" -- Roman fever. |
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