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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2022-05-24
A Motor Flight Through France 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 History categories.
In the early years of the 20th Century, Edith Wharton took the road trip of a lifetime across France with the celebrated author, Henry James (author of ‘Turn of the Screw,’ later adapted for TV, featuring ‘Downton Abbey’ star Michelle Dockery). Accompanied by Edith’s husband, their chauffeur, and Wharton's two dogs, they travelled the French countryside, stopping wherever inspiration struck. The result, ‘A Motor-Flight Through France,’ is a chronicle of the French villages, towns, and cities they visited. Wharton, with an innate appreciation for architecture, perfectly captures the beauty of turn-of-the-century France, detailing their stop-offs with evocative descriptions. From the food, they ate to the people they met, ‘A Motor-Flight Through France’ is an important chronicle of the country at a time when Italy was setting its military sites on it. A superb read for Wharton fans, and those with an interest 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.
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2021-01-01
A Motor Flight Through France written by Edith Wharton and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Fiction categories.
A Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton: Embark on a captivating journey across the picturesque landscapes of France with Edith Wharton's travelogue, A Motor-Flight Through France. Wharton's vivid descriptions and keen observations transport readers to the charming villages, historic landmarks, and breathtaking vistas of the French countryside. Key Points: Chronicles Edith Wharton's personal experiences and adventures while traveling through France by motorcar. Provides a unique perspective on the cultural, social, and historical aspects of France during the early 20th century. Combines travel narrative with Wharton's eloquent prose and literary sensibilities, creating a vivid and engaging reading experience. Edith Wharton, an iconic American author of the early 20th century, is celebrated for her keen observations of society and her exquisite prose. Born into New York's elite upper-class, Wharton deftly explored the complexities of human relationships, particularly within the constraints of societal expectations. Her works, including The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, portrayed the stifling conventions of the Gilded Age and the emotional struggles faced by her characters. Wharton's literary prowess earned her the distinction of being the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, solidifying her place as a literary trailblazer.
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-14
A Motor Flight Through France 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 2017-10-14 with Architecture categories.
Excerpt from A Motor-Flight Through France It is a delightful country, broken into wide waves of hill and valley, with hedge-rows high and leafy enough to bear comparison with the Kentish hedges among which our motor had left us a day or two before; and the villages, the frequent, smiling, happily-placed villages, will also meet successfully the more serious chal lenge of their English rivals - meet it on other grounds and in other ways, with paved market places and clipped charmilles instead of gorse fringed commons, with soaring belfries instead of square church towers, with less of verdure, but more, perhaps, of outline - certainly of line. 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 1908 By Edith Wharton
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
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Release Date : 2018-10-21
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Shedding the turn-of-the-century social confines she felt existed for women in America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. In A Motor-Flight Through France, originally published in 1908, Wharton combines the power of her prose, her love for travel, and her affinity for France to produce this compelling travelogue.
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-05-05
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In A Motor-Flight Through France, originally published in 1908, Wharton combines the power of her prose, her love for travel, and her affinity for France to produce this compelling travelogue.Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France.
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-10-12
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Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) 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, and was 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 was born Edith Newbold Jones to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City. She had two older brothers, Frederic Rhinelander, who was sixteen, and Henry Edward, who was eleven. She was baptized April 20, 1862, Easter Sunday, at Grace Church. To her friends and family she was known as "Pussy Jones."The saying "keeping up with the Joneses" is said to refer to her father's family. She was also related to the Rensselaers, the most prestigious of the old patroon families, who had received land grants from the former Dutch government of New York and New Jersey. She had a lifelong friendship with her niece, the landscape architect Beatrix Farrand of Reef Point in Bar Harbor, Maine.Wharton was born during the Civil War; she was three years old when the Confederate States surrendered. After the war, the family traveled extensively in Europe. From 1866 to 1872, the Jones family visited France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. During her travels, the young Edith became fluent in French, German, and Italian. At the age of ten, she suffered from typhoid fever while the family was at a spa in the Black Forest. After the family returned to the United States in 1872, they spent their winters in New York and their summers in Newport, Rhode Island. While in Europe, she was educated by tutors and governesses. She rejected the standards of fashion and etiquette that were expected of young girls at the time, which were intended to allow women to marry well and to be put on display at balls and parties. She considered these fashions superficial and oppressive. Edith wanted more education than she received, so she read from her father's library and from the libraries of her father's friends.Her mother forbade her to read novels until she was married, and Edith obeyed this command.Wharton began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, and attempted to write her first novel at age eleven. At age 15, her first published work appeared, a translation of a German poem "Was die Steine Erz�hlen" ("What the Stones Tell") by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, for which which she was paid $50. Her family did not want her name to appear in print, since writing was not considered a proper occupation for a society woman of her time. Consequently, the poem was published under the name of a friend's father, E. A. Washburn, a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson who supported women's education. He played a pivotal role in Edith's efforts to educate herself and encouraged her ambition to write professionally. In 1877, at the age of 15, she secretly wrote a 30,000 word novella "Fast and Loose." In 1878 her father arranged for a collection of two dozen original poems and five translations, Verses, to be privately published. In 1880 she had five poems published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly, an important literary magazine.Despite these early successes, she was not encouraged by her family or her social circle, and though she continued to write, she did not publish anything more until her poem "The Last Giustiniani" was published in Scribner's Magazine in October 1889....
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-06-12
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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.
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Author : EDITH. WHARTON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
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Release Date : 2008
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Author : Edith Wharton
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Release Date : 2019-10-20
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Edith Wharton's travel through France by car rather than train, seeing first hand the smaller towns never before seen from the view of a train. She saw the home of George Sand and photographed it and the many churches and cathedrals along the way. An early account of travel by car.Edith Wharton born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.Early lifeEdith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862 to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City. To her friends and family she was known as "Pussy Jones." She had two older brothers, Frederic Rhinelander, who was 16, and Henry Edward, who was 12. She was baptized April 20, 1862, Easter Sunday, at Grace Church.