Old New York - Couverture souple

Wharton, Edith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844083594 ISBN 13 : 9781844083596

Editeur : Virago, 2006

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the grande dame of American literature, was also a subtle and spirited critic of its society.

These novellas, set in the New York of the mid-1800s are united by Edith Wharton's compassionate and ironic vision. From Lewis Raycie, son of complacent plutocrats, who returns from his Grand Tour with Renaissance masterpieces only to be ridiculed and disinherited, to Lizzie Hazeldean, seen leaving a hotel with a man who is not her husband - honourable but unconventional people are sacrificed to the constraints of a society where appearances count for more than genuine goodness. Here is a fascinating insight into the world from which Edith Wharton came.

Biographie de l'auteur

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 in New York, and later lived in Rhode Island and France. Her first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902, and by 1913 she was writing at least one book a year. During the First World War she was awarded the Cross of the Legion d'Honneur and the Order of Leopold. In 1920, The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize; she was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from Yale University and in 1930 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and letters. She died in 1937.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844083594
• ISBN 13: 9781844083596
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324