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Italian Backgrounds
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Italian Backgrounds written by Edith Wharton and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with Literary Collections categories.
Sit back, relax, and join Edith Wharton on her journey through early 20th century Italy. A seasoned traveller, ‘Italian Backgrounds’ condenses a decade’s worth of Edith Wharton’s journeys through Italy, into one work. A chronicle rather than a novel, Wharton perfectly captures the essence, architecture, countryside, and people she comes across on her sojourn. Her adventure starts in Swiss Splügen, where she and her party must decide which road to take. As the journal unfolds, we are whisked through some famous Italian cities, such as Venice, Rome, and Milan, explore the likes of Lake Como and visit smaller towns and villages. In typical Wharton style, no detail is left undocumented, creating a book that is as rich in historical context as it is in its evocative description. A superb read for Wharton fans and those interested in history and travel. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes and she went on to become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death. Her works have been adapted to the screen countless times. The most recent examples are Martin Scorsese's 'The Age of Innocence' (1993) starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder and Terence Davies' 'The House of Mirth' (2000) starring Gillian Anderson and Eric Stoltz.
Italian Backgrounds
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Author : EDITH. WHARTON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Italian Backgrounds 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.
Italian Backgrounds Classic Reprint
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-09-27
Italian Backgrounds Classic Reprint written by Edith Wharton and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-27 with Art categories.
Excerpt from Italian Backgrounds It is not easy, in the height of the Swiss season, to light on a nook neglected by the tourist; but at Spliigen he still sweeps by in a cloud of diligence dust, or pauses only to gulp a flask of Paradiso and a rosy trout from the Suretta lakes. One's en J oyment of the place is thus enhanced by the pleasing spec tacle of the misguided hundreds who pass it by, and from the vantage of the solitary meadows above the village one may watch the throngs descending on Thusis or Chiavenna with something of the satisfac tion that mediaeval schoolmen believed to be the por tion of angels looking down upon the damned. Spliigen abounds in such points of observation. On all sides one may climb from the alder-f ringed shores of the Rhine, through larch-thickets tremulous with the leap of water, to grassy levels far above, whence the valley is seen lengthening southward to a great concourse of peaks. In the morning these upper meadows are hot and bright, and one is glad of the red-aisled pines and the onyx-coloured torrents cool ing the dusk; but toward sunset, when the shadows make the slopes of turf look like an expanse ofwatching the sun recede from the valley, where mow ers are still sweeping the grass into long curved lines like ridges of the sea, while the pine-woods on the eastern slopes grow black and the upper snows fade to the colour of cold ashes. The landscape is simple, spacious and serene. The fields suggest the tranquil rumination of gen erations of cattle, the woods off er cool security to sylvan life, the mountains present blunt weather beaten surfaces rather than the subtle contours. 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.
Italian Backgrounds
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Author : Edith Wharton (Schriftstellerin, USA)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
Italian Backgrounds written by Edith Wharton (Schriftstellerin, USA) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1905 with Art categories.
Italian Backgrounds
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Italian Backgrounds written by Edith Wharton and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Art categories.
For ten days we had not known what ailed us. We had fled from the August heat and crowd of the Vorderrheinthal to the posting-inn below the Splügen pass; and here fortune had given us all the midsummer tourist can hope for—solitude, cool air and fine scenery. A dozen times a day we counted our mercies, but still privately felt them to be insufficient. As we walked through the larch-groves beside the Rhine, or climbed the grassy heights above the valley, we were oppressed by the didactic quality of our surroundings—by the aggressive salubrity and repose of this bergerie de Florian. We seemed to be living in the landscape of a sanatorium prospectus. It was all pleasant enough, according to Schopenhauer’s definition of pleasure. We had none of the things we did not want; but then we did not particularly want any of the things we had. We had fancied we did till we got them; and as we had to own that they did their part in fulfilling our anticipations, we were driven to conclude that the fault was in ourselves. Then suddenly we found out what was wrong. Splügen was charming, but it was too near Italy. One can forgive a place three thousand miles from Italy for not being Italian; but that a village on the very border should remain stolidly, immovably Swiss was a constant source of exasperation. Even the landscape had neglected its opportunities. A few miles off it became the accomplice of man’s most exquisite imaginings; but here we could see in it only endless material for Swiss clocks and fodder. The trouble began with our watching the diligences. Every evening we saw one toiling up the pass from Chiavenna, with dusty horses and perspiring passengers. How we pitied those passengers! We walked among them puffed up with all the good air in our lungs. We felt fresh and cool and enviable, and moralized on the plaintive lot of those whose scant holidays compelled them to visit Italy in August. But already the poison was at work. We pictured what our less fortunate brothers had seen till we began to wonder if, after all, they were less fortunate. At least they had been there; and what drawbacks could qualify that fact? Was it better to be cool and look at a water-fall, or to be hot and look at Saint Mark’s? Was it better to walk on gentians or on mosaic, to smell fir-needles or incense? Was it, in short, ever well to be elsewhere when one might be in Italy?
Italian Backgrounds
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-06-13
Italian Backgrounds 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 2020-06-13 with categories.
To the mind curious in contrasts-surely one of the chief pleasures of travel-there can be no better preparation for a descent into Italy than a sojourn among the upperSwiss valleys. To pass from the region of the obviously picturesque-the country contrived, it would seem, for the delectation of the coeur à poésie facile-to that sophisticatedlandscape where the face of nature seems moulded by the passions and imaginings of man, is one of the most suggestive transitions in the rapidly diminishing range of suchexperiences.Nowhere is this contrast more acutely felt than in one of the upper Grisons villages.The anecdotic Switzerland of the lakes is too remote from Italy, geographically and morally, to evoke a comparison. The toy chalet, with its air of self-conscious neatness, making onefeel that if one lifted the roof it would disclose a row of tapes and scissors, or the shiningcylinders of a musical box, suggests cabinet-work rather than architecture; the swept andgarnished streets, the precise gardens, the subjugated vines, present the image of an oldmaid's paradise that would be thrown into hopeless disarray by the introduction ofanything so irregular as a work of art. In the Grisons, however, where only a bald grey passdivides one from Italy, its influence is felt, in a negative sense, in the very untidiness of thestreets, the rank growth of weeds along the base of rough glaring walls, the drone of fliesabout candidly-exposed manure-heaps. More agreeably, the same influence shows itself inthe rude old centaur-like houses, with their wrought-iron window-grilles and stoneescutcheons surmounting the odorous darkness of a stable. These are the houses of peopleconscious of Italy, who have transplanted to their bleak heights, either from poverty ofinvention, or an impulse as sentimental as our modern habit of "collecting," the thick walls, the small windows, the jutting eaves of dwellings designed under a sultry sky. So vivid isthe reminiscence that one almost expects to see a cypress leaning against the bruisedpeach-coloured walls of the village douane; but it is just here that the contrast accentuatesitself. The cypress, with all it stands for, is missing.
Italian Backgrounds
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-02
Italian Backgrounds 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 2020-04-02 with categories.
To the mind curious in contrasts-surely one of the chief pleasures of travel- there can be no better preparation for a descent into Italy than a sojourn among the upper Swiss valleys. To pass from the region of the obviously picturesque-the country contrived, it would seem, for the delectation of the coeur à poésie facile-to that sophisticated landscape where the face of nature seems moulded by the passions and imaginings of man, is one of the most suggestive transitions in the rapidly diminishing range of such experiences. Nowhere is this contrast more acutely felt than in one of the upper Grisons villages. The anecdotic Switzerland of the lakes is too remote from Italy, geographically and morally, to evoke a comparison. The toy chalet, with its air of self-conscious neatness, making one feel that if one lifted the roof it would disclose a row of tapes and scissors, or the shining cylinders of a musical box, suggests cabinet-work rather than architecture; the swept and garnished streets, the precise gardens, the subjugated vines, present the image of an old maid's paradise that would be thrown into hopeless disarray by the introduction of anything so irregular as a work of art. In the Grisons, however, where only a bald grey pass divides one from Italy, its influence is felt, in a negative sense, in the very untidiness of the streets, the rank growth of weeds along the base of rough glaring walls, the drone of flies about candidly-exposed manure-heaps. More agreeably, the same influence shows itself in the rude old centaur-like houses, with their wrought-iron window-grilles and stone escutcheons surmounting the odorous darkness of a stable. These are the houses of people conscious of Italy, who have transplanted to their bleak heights, either from poverty of invention, or an impulse as sentimental as our modern habit of "collecting," the thick walls, the small windows, the jutting eaves of dwellings designed under a sultry sky. So vivid is the reminiscence that one almost expects to see a cypress leaning against the bruisedpeach-coloured walls of the village douane; but it is just here that the contrast accentuates itself. The cypress, with all it stands for, is missing.
Italian Backgrounds Illustrated By E C Peixotto
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
Italian Backgrounds Illustrated By E C Peixotto 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 1905 with categories.
Italian Backgrounds By Edith Wharton Illustrated By E C Peixotto
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
Italian Backgrounds By Edith Wharton Illustrated By E C Peixotto 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 1905 with Art categories.
Nature In Italian Art
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Author : Emma Gurney Salter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
Nature In Italian Art written by Emma Gurney Salter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Art, Italian categories.