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Backward Glance : An Autobiography by Edith Wharton (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherScribner

ISBN-100684847558

ISBN-139780684847559

eBay Product ID (ePID)278889

Product Key Features

Book TitleBackward Glance : an Autobiography

Number of Pages424 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicWomen, Personal Memoirs, American / General, Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorEdith Wharton

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight13.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingA

Table Of ContentCONTENTS A First Word CHAPTER I. The Background II. Knee-High III. Little Girl IV. Unreluctant Feet V. Friendships and Travels VI. Life and Letters VII. New York and the Mount VIII. Henry James IX. The Secret Garden X. London, "Qu'Acre" and "Lamb" XI. Paris XII. Widening Waters XIII. The War XIV. And After Index

SynopsisA Backward Glanceis Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult. Beautifully depicted are her friendships with many of the most celebrated artists and writers of her day, including her close friend Henry James.In his introduction to this edition, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing inA Backward Glance"as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels." It is a memoir that will charm and fascinate all readers of Wharton's fiction., Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult. Beautifully depicted are her friendships with many of the most celebrated artists and writers of her day, including her close friend Henry James. In his introduction to this edition, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing in A Backward Glance "as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels." It is a memoir that will charm and fascinate all readers of Wharton's fiction.