French Ways and Their Meaning (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Edith Wharton

Overview

Francophile Edith Wharton is buried in Versailles. One of the few foreign front-line correspondents in France during World War I, she penned this collection of articles to orient American soldiers headed to the country. Articles such as “First Impressions,” “Intellectual Honesty,” “Taste,” “Continuity,” and “The New Frenchwoman” reveal the author’s love of her adopted land.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411449336
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	05/17/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	168 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

nEdith Wharton (1862–1937) was an acclaimed chronicler and keen observer of privileged society, novelist, and short story writer. Her novel The Age of Innocence made her the first female Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in 1921. She is the also the author of The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome.

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