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“A remarkable feat. . . . Unquestionably authoritative,
impressively exhaustive....Nobody has done Edith Wharton such
careful justice as [Hermione] Lee.” —Claire Messud, The New York
Times Book Review“Magnificent. . . . By far the most
comprehensive study of [Wharton's] full, populous and robust life.
. . . Wharton lived a spirited and passionate life, and Lee
captures that passion.” —Newsday“Thorough and intelligent. .
. . This meticulous, generous biography is likely to suffice for a
long time.” —Diane Johnson, The Washington Post Book
World“Richly detailed, carefully nuanced. . . . Edith
Wharton is not only the best book on its subject, but one of
the finest literary biographies to appear in recent years.” —The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
内容简介
From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning
biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes
a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of
letters.
Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the
image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith
Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her
fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an
adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned
novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but
as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal,
was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries
and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in
the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our
time.
作者简介
Hermione Lee is the first woman Goldsmiths'
Professor of English at Oxford University. Her books include the
internationally acclaimed biography, Virginia Woolf,
Willa Cather, and Body Parts: Essays on Life-writing.
She is also a well-known critic, and is the Chair of the Judges for
the Man Booker Prize, 2006.