Edith Wharton / Lee Hermione.

Summary:

Delving into heretofore untapped sources, the author of the acclaimed masterpiece "Virginia Woolf" brilliantly interweaves Edith 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

Record details

ISBN: 0375400044
ISBN: 9780375400049
Physical Description: viii, 869 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This is a Borzoi Book"--title page verso. Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, c2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 765-835) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	An American in Paris -- Making up -- Pussy Jones -- Italian backgrounds -- The Decoration of Houses -- The republic of letters -- Obligations -- The legend -- Friends in England -- Mme. Warthon -- L'Ame close -- La demanderesse -- Getting what you want -- Fighting France -- Une seconde patrie -- Pavillon/Chateau -- The Age of Innocence -- Jazz -- A private library -- All souls' -- Edith Wharton's family tree.