Francophile Edith Wharton is buried in Versailles. One of the few foreign front-line correspondents in France during World War I, she penned this collection of articles to orient American soldiers headed to the country. Articles such as “First Impressions, ” “Intellectual Honesty, ” “Taste, ” “Continuity, ” and “The New Frenchwoman” reveal the author’s love of her adopted land.
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n Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an acclaimed chronicler and keen observer of privileged society, novelist, and short story writer. Her novel The Age of Innocence made her the first female Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in 1921. She is the also the author of The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome.
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 168 ● ISBN 9781411449336 ● Dimensione 0.2 MB ● Età 99-17 anni ● Casa editrice Barnes & Noble ● Pubblicato 2011 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5863527 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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