Edith Wharton Abroad
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780312124175
Hardcover|9780312124175
✨ Featured Offer
Brand New
$52.72
List Price: $22.95
🚚
See all 5 offers from $10.62 FREE standard delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Overview
"Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called "brilliantly written and permanently interesting." For the first time, excerpts from each of these works have been made available to the general reader in a single volume. The collection spans a period of three decades: from the time of leisurely travel by chartered steam yacht, diligence, railway, and motor car during the belle epoque, through the horror and pathos of the French landscape during World War I, to the Morocco of 1917 - a country previously forbidden to most women and foreigners." "Scornful of guidebooks, Edith Wharton focused instead on the "parentheses of travel" - the undiscovered by-ways of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. Among the sites she describes are the towns of Tirano, Brescia, Poitiers, and Chauvigny; the gardens of the Villa Caprarola and the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati; Hippone and Goletta. Her account of Mount Athos in Greece (written in the recently discovered diary of her 1888 Mediterranean cruise), may be the first ever by an American. An intrepid reporter, she also depicts the front lines of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I. She describes art, architecture, sculpture, and landscape with the eye of a knowledgeable connoisseur and the sensitivity of an observant and imaginative novelist. Open to all experiences, she is a voracious intellectual wanderer who often interprets the sights she sees in the light of the extensive historic, literary, and classical reading begun in her youth."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780312124175 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0312124171 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.00 x 8.75 In |
| List Price | $22.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 240 pages |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Published On | 1995-06-01 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
Used, Like New
Seller details
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
Frederick, MD, USA
Like New condition. Like New dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic de...
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
My Dead Aunt's Books
Hyattsville, MD, USA
Size: 6x1x8; 216 clean, unmarked, tight pages; cover is clean and sturdy with a small abrasion on ...
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
Glover's Bookery, ABAA
Lexington, KY, USA
8vo; 216 pp; Minor edge wear and soiling on DJ, small scuff on lower front panel. Book is clean an...
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Bonita
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
✨ Brand New
Seller details
Bonita
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026