Name: Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belport
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Author: Wharton, Edith ; Tóibín, Colm
ISBN: 9781843914518

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Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belport

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Preface by

Colm Tóibín

Publisher

Hesperus Press

Language

English

Pages

122

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 0.3 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN

1843914514

ISBN13

9781843914518

Synopsis "Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belport"

As nuanced in her observations of human behavior as she is in her vivid depictions of French landscape and architecture, Wharton fully exploited her unique position as consort to Walter Barry, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, which allowed her unparalleled access to life in the trenches. Sensitive without sentimentality, and offering a valuable and extremely rare female perspective of a war dominated by the male viewpoint, this series of articles is nothing less than an inspirational testament to the strength of the human spirit at a time of the greatest adversity.

Edith Wharton

(Author)

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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