The Touchstone (Illustrated) Edith Wharton Author

by Edith Wharton

2021-04-03 15:43:06

*Illustrated with pictures of Wharton, her home, and her work.*Includes a Table of Contents.In 1921, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence, making Wharton the first woman to win the prestigious honor. But Wharton, w... Read more
*Illustrated with pictures of Wharton, her home, and her work.*Includes a Table of Contents.In 1921, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence, making Wharton the first woman to win the prestigious honor. But Wharton, who wrote several novels, poems, and short stories, was far more than just a writer. Wharton was a well-regarded intellectual who could count among her friends great writers like Henry James, as well as Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis. Wharton also had a famous meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Wharton was also a designer who loved architecture, as evidenced by her cherished and famed residences on both sides of the Atlantic. This edition of Wharton’s The Touchstone is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and is illustrated with over a dozen pictures of her. Less

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PublisherCharles River Editors
Publication date November 15, 2011
ISBN2940013483637
Edith Wharton (Jan 24, 1862 – Aug 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to realist...

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