The Cruise of the Vanadis by Edith Wharton
In the winter of 1888, Edith Wharton, twenty-six years old, confided in a Newport friend and cousin-in-law, James Van Alen, that there was nothing she wanted more in the world than to take a cruise in the Mediterranean. Van Alen arranged for the charter of a yacht called the Vanadis, and Edith and her husband Teddy set off on the trip she would call a taste of heaven'.
'In her log of the Vanadis we have a kind of dress rehearsal for the fiction of one of America's greatest novelists.. We see in what she wrote about her cruise that she was ready to set her stages, to fill her backgrounds, to create the world in which her characters would enact her plots. The characters and plots would come in due time' * From the Introduction by Louis Auchincloss *
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is the author of more than forty books including timeless classics such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. She was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and is now widely recognised as one of the greatest writers in the English language.
Jonas Dovydenas' photographs have appeared in Time, American Photographer, National Geographic Adventure, Soldier of Fortune, and others. He has been a Trustee of Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. for many years.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780747575689 |
| ISBN 10 | 0747575681 |
| Title | The Cruise of the Vanadis |
| Author | Edith Wharton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2004-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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