The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War

Paper covered boards with silver lettering on the spine, 238 pages including index. The copyright page reads first edition: April 1996 followed by a complete number line. There is no price on the dustjacket. -- " During World War I, Wharton saved the lives of thousands of Belgian and French refugees. When the war began, the expatriated Wharton and Henry James saw any possible German victory as "the crash of civilization," thus prompting their early involvement in the allied cause. In the opening weeks of the conflict, Wharton wrote war reportage at the front and organized relief efforts in Paris. Before the first year was over, she had created organizations and raised funds for three major war charities that bore her name. As the war sank into a stalemate of trench warfare, Wharton continued to write magazine and newspaper articles, organize fundraising schemes, and rally famous painters, composers, and writers to help sway American popular opinion and raise money for refugees. The End of the Age of Innocence tells the dramatic story of Wharton's heroic crusade to save the lives of displaced Belgians and the suffering citizens of her adopted France." Maxwell Books: Internet bookseller since 1998. Our books are fully and accurately described and shipped promptly. Buy with confidence.