Edith Wharton Abroad - Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920

In EDITH WHARTON ABROAD, Sarah Bird Wright has carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing that convey the writer's control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the "parentheses of travel" - the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. This collection spans a period of three decades and takes the reader with Wharton from France to Italy and to Greece. Included is an excerpt from her unpublished memoir, THE CRUISE OF THE VANDIS, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I.

About the author

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.

Product details

• Authors: Edith Wharton
• Assisted by: Edith Wharton (Editor), Sarah Bird Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.1996
• EAN: 9780312161200
• ISBN: 978-0-312-16120-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 350 g
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales