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Hermione Lee - Edith Wharton

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A critical biography of one of America's greatest writers offers a complex, richly textured study of a woman who transcends the image of a snobbish intellectual to describe Wharton's adventure-filled travels in Europe, the literary and artistic circles in which she lived and worked, her heroism during World War I, her search for true intimacy, and the evolution of her writing. Simultaneous.
 

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Edith Wharton

Date of Review:  Dec 13, 2008
The Bottom Line: Edith Wharton is an excellent examination of the author's talent, foibles, quirks and conscience.  Heartily recommended to Wharton's admirers.
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Edith Wharton is an author who has long, and unfairly, stood in the shade of Henry James. Their topics are sometimes similar, and their style, too, but of course they are different authors. But literary reputations live and die for...
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Authors Hermione Lee
Narrator Kate Reading
Nonfiction Category Biography & Autobiography • Literary Criticism • Social Science
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  Johnson, Diane, Washington Post Book World: "This meticulous, generous biography is likely to suffice for a long time. The virtue of such a compendious work from a distinguished biographer is that one can at last grasp the full range of Wharton's writing and the full power of her energy."

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  Format: Audio - Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House (April 10, 2007)
Measurements: 6"(h) x 5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.6 lbs.
ISBN: 9780739354094
 

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