Edith Wharton A to Z: The Essential Guide to the Life and Work (The Literary A to Z Series) - Softcover

Wright, Sarah Bird

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081603933X ISBN 13: 9780816039333

Verlag: Facts On File Inc, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Edith Wharton A to Z is an encyclopedic reference to Wharton's life and work. Comprehensive in scope, it features individual entries for the following categories of publication: Novels and short stories, travel writing, poetry, criticism, including reviews of books and plays, and foreign translations of her works.
Entries also cover Wharton's family, friends, and acquaintances; places that figure prominently in Wharton's letters, autobiography, and travel writing; Wharton's publishers, editors, and the periodicals for which she wrote; organizations and institutions Wharton joined or supported; honors, awards, and prizes Wharton received: the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Age of Innocence, an honorary doctorate from Yale University, and induction into the French Legion of Honor; critical and popular reception of her works; Wharton's literary influences and her influence on other writers.
The bibliography provides a complete list of Wharton's writings and a broad selection of secondary sources.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Facts On File Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 081603933X
• ISBN 13: 9780816039333
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330
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