A Backward Glance: An Autobiography by Wharton, Edith

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684847559)

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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography by Wharton, Edith

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography

$19.99
A Backward Glance: An Autobiography by Wharton, Edith

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography

$19.99
Format: Paperback
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Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.

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.

Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN-10: 0684847558
ISBN-13: 9780684847559
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 07/15/1998
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.17w x 1.16d
By Edith Wharton
By Edith Wharton
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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.

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