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Biographer Lee gives us a new Edith Wharton--tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born in 1862, Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. She developed a forceful literary professionalism and thrived in a luminous society that included Bernard Berenson, Aldous Huxley and most famously Henry James, who here emerges more as peer than as master. Wharton's life was fed by nonliterary enthusiasms as well: houses and gardens, relief efforts during the Great War, and the culture of the Old World, which she never tired of absorbing. Yet intimacy eluded her: unhappily married and childless, her one brush with passion came and went in midlife, an affair intimately recounted here. Lee interweaves 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.--From publisher description.
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Women intellectuals, World War, 1914-1918, Intellectual life, American Authors, Americans, War work, Biography, History, American Novelists, Women novelists, American, Novelists, American, American Women novelists, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, American Women authors, New York Times reviewed, Écrivains américains, Biographies, Intellectuelles, Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918, Participation des civils, Vie intellectuelle, American authors, Intellectuals, Romancières américaines, Romanciers américainsPeople
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Edith Wharton
February 26, 2008, Vintage Books
Paperback
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Edith Wharton
April 10, 2007, RH Audio
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"This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso.
Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [765]-835) and index.
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From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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