Edith Wharton - Couverture souple

Lee, Hermione

 
9780099763512: Edith Wharton

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hermione Lee is a biographer, professor emeritus of English Literature, and former president of Wolfson College, Oxford. Her writings include biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006), Penelope Fitzgerald (2013) and Tom Stoppard (2020). She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature and in 2024 was made a Dame Grand Cross (GBE) in 2024 for services to literary scholarship and literature. She lives in Oxford.

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