@article{322075,
      note = {"This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso.},
      author = {Lee, Hermione.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/322075},
      title = {Edith Wharton /},
      publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {322075},
      pages = {viii, 869 p., [24] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2007},
}