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Edith Wharton - Lee, Hermione, President

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From the award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather comes a brilliant, long-awaited reexamination of an iconic American woman of letters. Lucid and acute . . . with a thoroughness no other Wharton biography has yet achieved--"Los Angeles Times."

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2013, Pimlico, London

ISBN-13: 9781845952013

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Edith Wharton
2008, Vintage, New York, NY

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2008, Vintage Books

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2007, Knopf Publishing Group, New York, NY

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2007, Chatto & Windus

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Edith Wharton

2013, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9781845952013

Edith Wharton

2008, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780375702877

Edith Wharton

2008, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780099763512

Edith Wharton

2007, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780375400049

Edith Wharton

2007, Hardcover

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9780701166656

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Cariola

Mar 29, 2008

Who knew Wharton Was So Dull?

I was eager to read this new biography of one of my favorite novelists, but, unfortunately, either Wharton's life was simply duller than I anticipated, or Lee has rendered it so. The book flies through Wharton's childhood and early married years with little detail and gets overly caught up in her travels abroad--complete with long (and untranslated) passages in French and Italian from Wharton's journals that are particularly annoying. Lee does attempt to tie events in Wharton's life to characters, settings, and themes in in her novels, but the overall structure of the biography is uneven and the style and content dry.

myrradine

Jun 3, 2007

An insightful Wharton bigraphy

This weighty volume [880 pages] is one the best Wharton biographies available. Hermione Lee who did an excellent job on her biography of Virginia Woolf, has come up with another comprehensive biography of a novelist Edith Wharton [Custom of the Country, House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence]. Through this biography we learn of the complexities of Ms Wharton's life. She was accomplished in many fields, not just writing, and was a well-travelled person, as wellas a dabbler of other pursuits such as interior decorating. Her personal life, we learn, was quite complex, having married young to a much older man, a union that was dissolved after many years, and we also learn of her liaison with an American journalist. We learn that she preferred the company of men as friends and also that most of her inspiration for writing came from her own personal experiences. This is a well-researched compendium on Wharton and is a valuable addition to the library of any Wharton scholar or fan.

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