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 Included is an excerpt from her unpublished memoir, THE CRUISE OF THE VANDIS, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I.
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Edith Wharton was one who gave leisure and education a good name. Writing lucidly, charmingly, and intelligently of cruising the Greek isles, staying in Italian villas, and visiting a sultan's palace in Morocco, she sets a civilized pace and tone. In Italian Backgrounds, Wharton asks, "Is it, in short, ever well to be elsewhere when one might be in Italy?" To which I reply, is it ever well to be reading someone else when one might be reading Edith Wharton?
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American novelist Wharton and her pal, American expatriate novelist Henry James, both traveled widely and wrote exquisitely about it. James' travel writing has been excerpted as well as gathered whole in lots of places; Wharton's, however, isn't so easily tracked down. This helpful anthology is a sampling of her seven travel works written over a 30-year period, all of which live up to editor Wright's assertion that "Wharton's genius as novelist and travel writer lay in seeing her subject clearly and having at hand the words to express what she saw." From France to Italy to Morocco to a Mediterranean cruise, Wharton came, saw, and conquered with brilliantly evocative prose. The book will have most appeal to the travel enthusiast who also claims a love of literature. Brad Hooper
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Dude, this book is cool. its, like, really interesting and stuff and it makes me wanna go to italy. i bet italy is pretty cool from the descriptions. but thats just what i think, and i dont do it that often really. Hey, e-mail me if you have suggestions of good books or anything really. Bye!!
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On the seventeenth of February after two weeks of icy fog in Paris, we left Marseilles for Algiers, in the steamer Ville de Madrid. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mount Athos, Black Guard, George Sand, Herr Gurlitt, Sainte Menehould, Motor-Flight Through France, Santa Giustina, Scribner's Magazine, Villa Falconieri, Bergamasque Alps, New York, Notre Dame, Red Cross, Santa Maria, Val San Zibio, Les Andelys, North Africa, Pirro Ligorio, Saint Pierre, The Century New!
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Mount Athos, Black Guard, George Sand, Herr Gurlitt, Sainte Menehould, Motor-Flight Through France, Santa Giustina, Scribner's Magazine, Villa Falconieri, Bergamasque Alps, New York, Notre Dame, Red Cross, Santa Maria, Val San Zibio, Les Andelys, North Africa, Pirro Ligorio, Saint Pierre, The Century New!
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- Italian Backgrounds by Edith Wharton on 16 pages
- In Morocco by Edith Wharton on 13 pages
- The Cruise of The Vanadis by Edith Wharton on 12 pages
- Italian Villas And Their Gardens (Classical America Series in Art and Architecture) by Edith Wharton on 11 pages
- A MOTOR-FLIGHT THROUGH FRANCE by EDITH WHARTON on 11 pages
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- Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830-1920 by Mary Suzanne Schriber in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton (Historical Guides to American Authors) by Carol J. Singley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Paris: The Collected Traveler: An Inspired Anthology and Travel Resource by Barrie Kerper on page 551
- Travel Culture: Essays on What Makes Us Go by Carol Traynor Williams in Back Matter
- The Age of Innocence (Riverside Editions) by Edith Wharton in Back Matter
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