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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st American Edition. LANDMARK: DEFINITIVE: REVELATORY: BRILLIANT: EMPATHETIC: INTIMATE: INSIGHTFUL: VIVID: NEW First U.S. Edition hardcover (Orig. April 2007) First Printing, NEW handsomely-illustrated mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing (Orig. $35.00) pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ clay-orange library-durable fabric wrapping NEW uncreased spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels beautifully covered in pale-lemon library-durable fabric w/titles ELEGANTLY gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW binding w/ tight signatures & red-gold-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed in Janson w/ handsome clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 2.06", 1.36 kg, viii+870 (878) pp * CONTENTS: Text in Three Parts (1-762), Edith Wharton's Family Tree (763), Notes (765), Select Bibliography & Abbreviations (829), Acknowledgments (837), Index (841) * Illustrated in three 8-pp inserts on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper presenting a SUPERB series of 79 choice b-w photographs: Between pp 182/183 (28 photos ), Between 438/439 (21 photos), Between 678/679 (30 photos) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The DEFINITIVE biography of one of America?s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece "Virginia Woolf". Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Hermione Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking & gives us a new Edith Wharton?tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant & complex as her fiction. Born in 1862, Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe & eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary professionalism & thrived in a luminous society that included Bernard Berenson, Aldous Huxley & most famously Henry James, who here emerges more as peer than as master. Wharton's life was fed by nonliterary enthusiasms as well: her fabled houses & gardens, her heroic relief efforts during the Great War, the culture of the Old World, which she never tired of absorbing. Yet intimacy eluded her: unhappily married & childless, her one brush with passion came & went in midlife, an affair vividly, intimately recounted here. W/ profound empathy & insight, Lee brilliantly interweaves Wharton's life w/ the evolution of her writing, the full scope of which shows her far to be more daring than her stereotype as lapidarian chronicler of the Gilded Age. In its revelation of both the woman & the writer, Edith Wharton is a landmark biography.* ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Hermione Lee is the first woman Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. Her books include a major biography of Virginia Woolf; studies of Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather & Philip Roth; & a collection of essays on life-writing, "Virginia Woolf?s Nose". Also a well-known critic, Lee served as the Chair of Judges for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2006. She lives in Oxford & Yorkshire. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE custom wraps & labels & securely packages this superb book for shipment at no charge within the United States via USPS Media Mail or via USPS Priority Mail for a nominal $10.00 fee. We ship below cost to international destinations at our posted rates via USPS First Class Airmail w/ rates available on request for international shipment via USPS Priority Airmail. Nº de ref. del artículo: 010292
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