Edith Wharton at Home Life at the Mount

Name: Edith Wharton at Home Life at the Mount
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ISBN: 9781580933285

ISBN-10: 1580933289

ISBN-13: 9781580933285

Edition: 2012

Authors: Richard Guy Wilson, Pauline C. Metcalf, John Arthur

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"The Mount was to give me country cares and joys, long happy rides and drives through the wooded lanes of that loveliest region, the companionship of dear friends, and the freedom from trivial obligations, which was necessary if I was to go on with my writing. The Mount was my first real home . . . its blessed influence still lives in me."-- Edith Wharton, 1934Completed in 1902, The Mount sits in the rolling landscape of the Berkshire Hills, with views overlooking Laurel Lake and all the way out to the mountains. At the turn of the century, Lenox and Stockbridge were thriving summer resort communities, home to Vanderbilts, Sloanes, and other leading families of the Gilded Age.Edith Wharton…

Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Monacelli Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 188
Size: 8.45" wide x 10.40" long x 3.00" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Richard Guy Wilson is chair and Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.