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Motor-Flight Through France (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. As the Whartons embark on three separate journeys through the country in 1906 and 1907, accompanied first by Edith's brother, Harry Jones, and then by Henry James, Edith is enamored by the freedom that this new form of transport has given her. With a keen eye for architecture and art, and the engrossing style that would later earn her a Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Wharton writes about places that she previously "yearned for from the windows of the train."

Including photographs reproduced directly from the 1908 first edition, and newly introduced by acclaimed travel writer Lavinia Spalding, the Restless Books edition of A Motor-Flight Through France will inspire current and future generations of readers and adventurers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Restless Books
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781632060013
• Artikelnr.: 53013172

Autorenporträt

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Having grown up in an upper-class, tightly controlled society known as "Old New York" at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage, Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of that society's fiercest critics as well as one of America's greatest writers. The author of more than 40 books in 40 years, Wharton's oeuvre includes classic works of American literature such as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, as well as authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel.