Edith Wharton / Hermione Lee.
Lee, Hermione.
2007
PS3545.H16 Z695 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Edith Wharton / Hermione Lee.
Author Lee, Hermione.
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9780375400049
0375400044
Imprint New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Language English
Description viii, 869 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number PS3545.H16 Z695 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.52 B
Summary 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.
Note "This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso.
Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, c2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [765]-835) and index.
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