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Edith Wharton at Home
Richard Guy Wilson
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Description for Edith Wharton at Home
Hardcover.
The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth.
The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book The Decoration of Houses, and the surrounding landscape displays her deep knowledge of Italian gardens. Wandering the grounds of this historic home, one can see the influence of Wharton’s inimitable spirit in its architecture and design, just as one can sense the Mount’s impact on the extraordinary life of Edith Wharton herself.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Monacelli Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781580933285
SKU
V9781580933285
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Richard Guy Wilson
Richard Guy Wilson is Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia and a foremost authority on the architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of more than twenty books, most recently The Colonial RevivalHouse and Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House. Pauline C. Metcalf is a noted architecture ... Read more
Reviews for Edith Wharton at Home
"Richard Guy Wilson's Edith Wharton at Home...illuminates Wharton’s life at her country house in the Berkshires - 'my first real home,' as Wharton called it, having built it to fit her design ideals. The Mount was also the place where she made her first forays into fiction (Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth) and entertained a salon of writers ... Read more