Name: The Valley of Decision
SKU: 60573950
Price: 41.43 EUR
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Author: Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9781985138919

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

422

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.2 cm

Weight

0.56 kg.

ISBN13

9781985138919

Synopsis "The Valley of Decision"

Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton combined an insider's view of American aristocracy with a powerful prose style. Her novels and short stories realistically portrayed the lives and morals of the late nineteenth century, an era of decline and faded wealth. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921, the first woman to receive this honor. Wharton was acquainted with many of the well-known people of her day, both in America and in Europe, including President Theodore Roosevelt.

Edith Wharton

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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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