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Edith WhartonHermione Lee

Edith Wharton

Hermione Lee, Hermione. Lee, HERMIONE LEE
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From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows,…

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Editions

5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2008
    Vintage Books · 864 pages · 9780099763512
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307555854
  • Audiobook · English · 2007
    RH Audio · 9780739354094
  • Other · English · 2007
    Alfred A. Knopf · 869 pages · 9780375400049
  • Other · English · 2007
    Chatto & Windus · 853 pages · 9780701166656
Women intellectualsWorld War, 1914-1918Intellectual lifeAmerican AuthorsAmericansWar workBiographyHistory