Edith Wharton

A Backward Glance (eBook, ePUB)

An Autobiography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult. Beautifully depicted are her friendships with many of the most celebrated artists and writers of her day, including her close friend Henry James.

In his introduction to this edition, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing in A Backward Glance "as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels." It is a memoir that will charm and fascinate all readers of Wharton's fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439105054
• Artikelnr.: 37898692

Autorenporträt

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist-the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921-as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York's elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
A First Word
CHAPTER
I. The Background
II. Knee-High
III. Little Girl
IV. Unreluctant Feet
V. Friendships and Travels
VI. Life and Letters
VII. New York and the Mount
VIII. Henry James
IX. The Secret Garden
X. London, "Qu'Acre" and "Lamb"
XI. Paris
XII. Widening Waters
XIII. The War
XIV. And After
Index