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Edith Wharton

Hermione Lee

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#1916 of 3,809 books · #652 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2007).

From Hermione Lee 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. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307555854
Topics
Edith Wharton's lifeAmerican literatureLiterary biography

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