Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
This masterly new biography of Edith Wharton paints a portrait of a fiercely modern author, writing of sex, love, money and war - a woman of strong convictions and conflicting ambitions and desires. Delving into every aspect of her extraordinary life story, the book shows in fascinating detail how she worked and what lies at the heart of her magnificent and elegant works.
"A superb biography" -- Colm Toibin Irish Times "Adding impressive depth and nuance to the received portrait of Wharton, Lee's biography excels in its discussions of her writing" -- Peter Kemp The Sunday Times "Painstaking and elegant.. One of this book's great pleasures is Lee's discussion of Wharton's work" -- Kasia Boddy Daily Telegraph "A feat of exhaustive research...finely tuned to Wharton's creative achievement. This is a glorious biography" -- Mark Bostridge Independent on Sunday "[A] majestically weighty autobiography as meticulous, exhaustive and exhausting in scope and scale as its subject" -- Hilary Spurling Observer
Hermione Lee's previous books include the internationally acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf, a collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts, and a study of Elizabeth Bowen. She is a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, and, in 2006, Chair of the judges for the Man-Booker Prize. She is the first woman Goldsmiths' Professor of English at Oxford University, a Fellow of New College Oxford, of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded a CBE in 2003 for services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099763512 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099763516 |
| Title | Edith Wharton |
| Author | Hermione Lee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 864 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Biography 2008, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Biography 2008 |
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