The Letters of Edith Wharton. Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis

Edith WHARTON

ISBN 10: 0671699652 / ISBN 13: 9780671699659

Published by London [&c]: Simon & Schuster, 1988

About this Item

Cloth-backed boards, in dustwrapper. Spine slightly crinkled, top edge faintly spotted. First UK edition (first published the same year by Charles Scribner's Sons), with the (Will Carter, red) book-label of the bookseller and crime writer George Sims.

Seller Inventory # 33M100755

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Letters of Edith Wharton. Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis
• Publisher: London [&c]: Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671699652
• ISBN 13: 9780671699659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

UP the long hill from the station at St.-Cloud, Lizzie West climbed in the cold spring sunshine. As she breasted the incline, she noticed the first waves of wistaria over courtyard railings and the high lights of new foliage against the walls of ivy-matted gardens; and she thought again, as she had thought a hundred times before,that she had never seen so beautiful a spring.

About the Author

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, known for such classics as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. A member of the New York elite, Wharton drew on her experiences as part of society to critique its inner workings and the conflict between personal desires and societal norms. Wharton died in 1937, leaving behind a rich literary legacy.