"Edith Wharton A to Z" draws from a selection of original and secondary sources to create a portrait of one of America's major women writers and novelists.
A prolific novelist, poet and correspondent, Thomas Hardy bridged the gap between the late-Victorian and the early modern age. He is best known for his novels of tragic intensity, such as "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", "Jude the Obscure", "The Mayor of Casterbridge", "Far From the Madding Crowd" and "The Return of the Native". This A to Z reference ...
A guide to the enigmatic author's life includes synopses of her writings, explores the critical reception of her works, and discusses the important people in her life.
This volume presents a literary and visual overview of the interchange between France and England as experienced by members of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, and Dora Carrington during the years 1906-1939, particularly their ...
"The Scarlet Letter", "The House of the Seven Gables", "Young Goodman Brown," and "Rappaccini's Daughter" are staples of high school English classes across the country. Nathaniel Hawthorne's works and characters have left a lasting impression on writers, scholars, and readers around the world. "Critical Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne" offers ...
Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called by the critic Blake Nevius 'brilliantly written and permanently interesting.' This collection spans three decades: from leisurely travel by yacht, diligence, railway and car during the belle epoque, through the horror and pathos of the French landscape during World War 1, to the Morocco of ...
This book contains excerpts from each of Wha rton''s 7 works of travel. The collection spans a period of 3 decades, from a time of leisurely travel by chartered steam yacht, through to the horrors of the French landscape durin g World War 1. '
The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, this work is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship.
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