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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton | Hermione Lee
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From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters. Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Andrew65
Edith Wharton | Hermione Lee
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Only got to two Edith Wharton books during April‘s #AuthoraMonth Where did April go! Not necessarily an author that speaks to me but did enjoy Ethan Frome.
#AAMEW

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TK-421
Edith Wharton | Hermione Lee
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.” ― Edith Wharton #QuotsyDec19 #Candle

TheSpineView Love this quote! ❤ 4y
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HannahWilks
Edith Wharton | Hermione Lee
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'Though the years are sad, the days have a way of being jubilant.'

Haven't updated in a while due to moving flats but this was too rich & wonderful not to recommend. I knew nothing about Wharton's life and this superb biography of a difficult, unlikeable, magnificent, thwarted, 'lonely-hearted and remembering' person has not only remedied that but enriched Wharton's writing for me. Masterful biography. Adored it.

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RobinGustafson
Edith Wharton | Hermione Lee
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You know you‘re a book hoarder when you unintentionally purchase a different edition of the same book #bookhoarder

Tamra Me too. 🤦🏾‍♀️ 6y
Redwritinghood I‘ve done that too. 6y
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ontheBL
Edith Wharton | Hermione Lee
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A biography of Edith Wharton with an emphasis on New York of the time and Wharton's work.