Edith Wharton

Vita-Finzi, Penelope: Edith Wharton. And the Art of Fiction. London : Pinter, 1994. ISBN: 1855671646
Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - Edith Wharton was a travel and architectural writer as well as a novelist. Her belief in the classical principles of order and harmony is revealed in her non-fiction works and this led to her a conviction of the need for a coherent theory of fiction. But, her attempt to formulate such as theory was undermined by her romantic idea of inspiration and imagination, and this tension between classical and romantic principles is clearly revealed by comparisons between her works of non-fiction and fiction. Penelope Vita-Finzi explores Edith Wharton's concept of the artist through a study of her fiction, published and unpublished, and autobiographical material. She shows that Edith Wharton's views about the education and environment necessary for the writer were rooted in nineteenth century thought rather than being influenced by contemporary literary and intellectual debates. She attempts moreover a readjustment of the current belittling view of Edith Wharton as a "woman writer". ISBN 1855671646 - , ISBN-13: 9781855671645

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Wharton, Edith: Francia combatiente. De Dunkerque A Belfort. Titulo original: Fighting France. From Dunkerque to Belfort. Traduccion del ingles por Pilar Adon. Introduccion de Yolanda Morato. Madrid, Impedimenta, 2009, ISBN: 978849371103
En 1914, ano en que estallo la primera guerra mundial, Edith Wharton tenia cincuenta y dos anos y gozaba de un tremendo prestigio como novelista. Desde 1910 residia en Francia, el pais que mas amaba. No es dificil imaginar, pues, el horror que supuso para ella la invasion de Francia por los alemanes. A principios de 1915 la Cruz Roja francesa le pidio que informara sobre las necesidades de los hospitales del frente. Lo que vio le hizo albergar la idea de narrar sus experiencias en una serie de articulos para la Scribner's Magazine, que luego serian recopilados en el presente volumen. Era una epoca en que los corresponsales extranjeros estaban excluidos de la zona de combate. Pero nadie, por poderoso que fuera, era capaz de disuadir a Edith Wharton de su empeno, y de ese modo decidio abandonar su apartamento parisino para visitar, en seis apasionantes expediciones, el frente de batalla en que se decidia el destino de Europa, de Dunkerque a Belfort. "Es necesario que esto acabe: esa era la frase que estaba en boca de todos. Si la diplomacia podia evitar la guerra, tanto mejor: nadie en Francia la queria. Cualquiera que hubiera pasado los primeros dias de agosto en Paris podria dar fe de que este era el espiritu generalizado. Pero si tenia que haber una guerra, entonces el pais y cada una de sus almas estarian preparados para afrontarla." [Sinopsis texto editorial].
[Traducidos al espanol, Biografias/Memorias, Entrevista / Testimonio, Historia, Autoras]

218p., 19.5x12.5cm, rustica con solapas. ISBN 978849371103EJEMPLAR NUEVO / NEUBUCH / NEW ITEM

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Wharton, Edith : The cruise of the Vanadis. With photographs by Jonas Dovydenas. London: Bloomsbury, 2004.
The newly discovered first travel memoir of one of America's greatest novelists. In the winter of 1888, Edith Wharton, twenty-six years old and three years married, confided to a Newport friend and cousin-in-law, James Van Alen, that there was nothing' she wanted more in the world than to take a cruise in the Mediterranean. Van Alen arranged for the charter of a yacht called the Vanadis, and Edith and her husband Teddy set off on the trip she would call "a taste of heaven." The Cruise of the Vanadis is Wharton's elegant record of that journey. As sophisticated and erudite as any of Wharton's novels, the diary lay undiscovered until 1991 when scholar Glaudine Lesage discovered it on a dusty library shelf in France. This beautiful illustrated edition marks the diary's first publication in the UK and provides a rare glimpse of the genesis of a great literary career. Annotated with timeless photographs by distinguished photographer Jonas Dovydenas, who faithfully retraced Wharton's route, and with a new foreword by renowned novelist and Gilded Age scholar Louis Auchincloss, this book is a valuable addition to the Wharton canon. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. -

221 p., gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag.

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James W. Tuttleton,Kristin O. Lauer,Margaret P. Murray Illustrator: . Edith Wharton: The Contemporary Reviews, Cambridge University Press 2010 ISBN: 9780521126786

New Softcover . This book represents a comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writing of Edith Wharton from the 1890s until her death in 1937. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. In addition, lists of other reviews not presented here are provided. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific titles and indicate the development of Wharton's reputation as a novelist, short-story writer, travel writer, and autobiographer. Printed Pages: 588. First edition

[SW: Edith Wharton: The Contemporary ReviewsJames W. Tuttleton, Kristin O. Lauer, Margaret P. Murray9780521126786]

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