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A Motor Flight Through France Classic Reprint
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-28
A Motor Flight Through France Classic Reprint written by Edith Wharton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-28 with Travel categories.
Excerpt from A Motor-Flight Through France About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Motor Flight Through France
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Restless Books
Release Date : 2014-05-06
A Motor Flight Through France written by Edith Wharton and has been published by Restless Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-06 with Travel categories.
"Those who have been charmed with Mrs. Wharton's novels will not be disappointed by her venture into the unfamiliar role of a travel writer." —New York Times, 1908 A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. As the Whartons embark on three separate journeys through the country in 1906 and 1907, accompanied first by Edith’s brother, Harry Jones, and then by Henry James, Edith is enamored by the freedom that this new form of transport has given her. With a keen eye for architecture and art, and the engrossing style that would later earn her a Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Wharton writes about places that she previously “yearned for from the windows of the train." A Motor-Flight Through France captures the riches and charm of France during the Belle Époque in gorgeous, romantic prose. With the automobile in its infancy, Wharton experienced the countryside as few people ever had, liberated from the tedium and passivity of train travel. “The motor-car has restored the romance of travel,” she writes. Seeing through Wharton’s eyes, readers are sure to have their own appreciation for the road trip reawakened. Now published for the first time as an illustrated ebook with photographs reproduced directly from the 1908 first edition, with a new introduction by acclaimed travel writer Lavinia Spalding, the Restless Books edition of A Motor-Flight Through France kicks off an eye-opening new series of women writing about travel, with fresh introductions by some of our best contemporary travel writers. This overlooked classic will inspire current and future generations of readers and adventurers. Praise for A Motor-Flight Through France "Edith Wharton's graceful sentences create dramatic, populous tableaux and peel back layer after layer of artifice and pretense, of what we say and how we wish to appear, revealing the hidden kernel of what human beings are like, alone and together." —Francine Prose, New York Review of Books "Those who have been charmed with Mrs. Wharton's novels will not be disappointed by her venture into the unfamiliar role of a travel writer." —New York Times (1908) "Wharton's reflections will still charm those who've been and those who dream. A nice addition to American literature as well as travel collections." —Library Journal "A portrait of a long-forgotten France, a country that, when Wharton ranged over it in her 1904 Panhard-Levassor, was largely unchanged from medieval times." —New York Times Book Review Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Having grown up in an upper-class, tightly controlled society known as “Old New York” at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage, Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of that society’s fiercest critics as well as one of America’s greatest writers. The author of more than 40 books in 40 years, Wharton’s oeuvre includes classic works of American literature such as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, as well as authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel. Lavinia Spalding is a writer, editor, teacher, and lapsed luddite. She’s the author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler, named one of the best travel books of 2009 by the LA Times, and With a Measure of Grace: The Story and Recipes of a Small Town Restaurant. She is also the series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing. Lavinia is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal, and her work has appeared in many print and online publications, including Sunset, Post Road, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, Tin House, Gadling, Overnight Buses, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and The Best Travel Writing Volume 9. Lavinia lives in San Francisco, where she’s a resident of the Writers’ Grotto and co-founder of the award-winning monthly travel reading series Weekday Wanderlust.
Atlantic Automobilism
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Author : Gijs Mom
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2014-12-01
Atlantic Automobilism written by Gijs Mom and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-01 with History categories.
Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present “car society.” Combining social, psychological, and structural explanations, the author concludes that the ability of cars to convey transcendental experience, especially for men, explains our attachment to the vehicle.
A Motor Tour Through France And England
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Author : Elizabeth Yardley
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-07-14
A Motor Tour Through France And England written by Elizabeth Yardley and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-14 with Architecture categories.
Excerpt from A Motor Tour Through, France and England: A Record of Twenty-One and a Half Days Automobiling This book was originally started as a diary, but at the end of our journey I decided that other motorists might enjoy reading about what we had accomplished in so short a time, and the general public be interested in the variety of the trip and the illustra tions, many of which have not been used before. I have not attempted a guidebook in any sense, but it may prove of some value in that capacity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Motor Flight Through France
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Author : EDITH. WHARTON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Motor Flight Through France written by EDITH. WHARTON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
A Motor Flight Through France
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-23
A Motor Flight Through France written by Edith Wharton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with categories.
The motor-car has restored the romance of travel. Freeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, the bondage to fixed hours and the beaten track, the approach to each town through the area of ugliness and desolation created by the railway itself, it has given us back the wonder, the adventure and the novelty which enlivened the way of our posting grand-parents. Above all these recovered pleasures must be ranked the delight of taking a town unawares, stealing on it by back ways and unchronicled paths, and surprising in it some intimate aspect of past time, some silhouette hidden for half a century or more by the ugly mask of railway embankments and the iron bulk of a huge station. Then the villages that we missed and yearned for from the windows of the train-the unseen villages have been given back to us!-and nowhere could the importance of the recovery have been more delightfully exemplified than on a May afternoon in the Pas-de-Calais, as we climbed the long ascent beyond Boulogne on the road to Arras.
The Motor Routes Of France
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Author : Gordon Home
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-08
The Motor Routes Of France written by Gordon Home and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Architecture categories.
Excerpt from The Motor Routes of France: To the Chateaux of Touraine, Biarritz, the Pyrenees, the Riviera, and the Rhone Valley Great pains have been taken to embody in the small compass of a book that will easily slip into an overcoat pocket all that is essential for the motorist to know both before and during the tour. At the same time, the large clear type of the first volume of this series has been retained in order that there may be no difficulty in reading while the car is in motion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Motor Flight Through France
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-06-12
A Motor Flight Through France written by Edith Wharton and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-12 with categories.
The motor-car has restored the romance of travel.Freeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, the bondage to fixedhours and the beaten track, the approach to each town through the area of ugliness anddesolation created by the railway itself, it has given us back the wonder, the adventure andthe novelty which enlivened the way of our posting grand-parents. Above all theserecovered pleasures must be ranked the delight of taking a town unawares, stealing on itby back ways and unchronicled paths, and surprising in it some intimate aspect of pasttime, some silhouette hidden for half a century or more by the ugly mask of railwayembankments and the iron bulk of a huge station. Then the villages that we missed andyearned for from the windows of the train-the unseen villages have been given back tous!-and nowhere could the importance of the recovery have been more delightfullyexemplified than on a May afternoon in the Pas-de-Calais, as we climbed the long ascentbeyond Boulogne on the road to Arras.It is a delightful country, broken into wide waves of hill and valley, with hedge-rowshigh and leafy enough to bear comparison with the Kentish hedges among which our motorhad left us a day or two before; and the villages, the frequent, smiling, happily-placedvillages, will also meet successfully the more serious challenge of their English rivals-meet it on other grounds and in other ways, with paved market-places and clippedcharmilles instead of gorse-fringed commons, with soaring belfries instead of squarechurch towers, with less of verdure, but more, perhaps, of outline-certainly of line.
Paris In American Literatures
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Author : Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson
Release Date : 2013-05-16
Paris In American Literatures written by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection brings together new perspectives on the novels, memoirs, poetry, and journalism concerning Paris written by Americans. By examining the implications of foreignness as a creative device, this volume offer an innovative approach to understanding the role of the French capital in American Literatures, one that would be compelling for the literary scholar and the avid reader.
A Motor Flight Through France
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Author : Edith X Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-23
A Motor Flight Through France written by Edith X Edith Wharton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with categories.
The motor-car has restored the romance of travel. Freeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, the bondage to fixed hours and the beaten track, the approach to each town through the area of ugliness and desolation created by the railway itself, it has given us back the wonder, the adventure and the novelty which enlivened the way of our posting grand-parents. Above all these recovered pleasures must be ranked the delight of taking a town unawares, stealing on it by back ways and unchronicled paths, and surprising in it some intimate aspect of past time, some silhouette hidden for half a century or more by the ugly mask of railway embankments and the iron bulk of a huge station. Then the villages that we missed and yearned for from the windows of the train-the unseen villages have been given back to us!-and nowhere could the importance of the recovery have been more delightfully exemplified than on a May afternoon in the Pas-de-Calais, as we climbed the long ascent beyond Boulogne on the road to Arras.