Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920

by Edith Wharton, Sarah Bird Wright (Editor)

Overview

In EDITH WHARTON ABROAD, Sarah Bird Wright has carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing that convey the writer's control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the "parentheses of travel" - the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. This collection spans a period of three decades and takes the reader with Wharton from France to Italy and to Greece. Included is an excerpt from her unpublished memoir, THE CRUISE OF THE VANDIS, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312161200
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/15/1996
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is the author of more than forty books including timeless classics such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. She was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and is now widely recognised as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Jonas Dovydenas' photographs have appeared in Time, American Photographer, National Geographic Adventure, Soldier of Fortune, and others. He has been a Trustee of Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. for many years.

Sarah Bird Wright is an independent scholar.

Date of Birth:

January 24, 1862

Date of Death:

August 11, 1937

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

Education:

Educated privately in New York and Europe

Editorial Reviews

A collection of Wharton's travel works spanning three decades: from the time of leisurely travel by chartered steam yacht, railway, and motor car during the belle epoque, through the horror of the French landscape during WWI, to the Morocco of 1917--a country previously forbidden to foreigners and women. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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