Edith Wharton Ambassador Book Awards

Name: Edith Wharton Ambassador Book Awards
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ISBN: 9780375702877

ISBN-10: 0375702873

ISBN-13: 9780375702877

Edition: N/A

Authors: Hermione Lee

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From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer ofVirginia WoolfandWilla 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.…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 912
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English