Edith Wharton abroad: selected travel writings, 1888 - 1920
Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called "brilliantly written and permanently interesting." For the first time, excerpts from each of these works have been made available to the general reader in a single volume. The collection spans a period of three decades: from the t...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called "brilliantly written and permanently interesting." For the first time, excerpts from each of these works have been made available to the general reader in a single volume. The collection spans a period of three decades: from the time of leisurely travel by chartered steam yacht, diligence, railway, and motor car during the belle epoque, through the horror and pathos of the French landscape during World War I, to the Morocco of 1917 - a country previously forbidden to most women and foreigners Scornful of guidebooks, Edith Wharton focused instead on the "parentheses of travel" - the undiscovered by-ways of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. Among the sites she describes are the towns of Tirano, Brescia, Poitiers, and Chauvigny; the gardens of the Villa Caprarola and the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati; Hippone and Goletta. Her account of Mount Athos in Greece (written in the recently discovered diary of her 1888 Mediterranean cruise), may be the first ever by an American. An intrepid reporter, she also depicts the front lines of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I. She describes art, architecture, sculpture, and landscape with the eye of a knowledgeable connoisseur and the sensitivity of an observant and imaginative novelist. Open to all experiences, she is a voracious intellectual wanderer who often interprets the sights she sees in the light of the extensive historic, literary, and classical reading begun in her youth |
| Beschreibung: | XXII, 216 S. Ill. |
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ABROAD
Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920
Edith Wharton
EDITED BY
SARAH BIRD WRIGHT
St Martin s Press
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases xiii
Preface by Shari Benstock xvii
Introduction by Sarah Bird Wright 1
THE CRUISE OF THE VANADIS
Africa 39
Chios and Smyrna 45
Mount Athos - 49
ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS
Villas Near Rome 61
Villas of Venetia 76
ITALIAN BACKGROUNDS
A Midsummer Week s Dream: August in Italy 87
Picturesque Milan 101
A MOTOR-FLIGHT THROUGH FRANCE
From Rouen to Fontainebleau 113
Paris to Poitiers 120
FIGHTING FRANCE: FROM DUNKERQUE TO BELFORT
In Argonne 133
In Lorraine and the Vosges 151
FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING
Taste 169
The New Frenchwoman 176
IN MOROCCO
Harems and Ceremonies 187
Selected Bibliography 211
Index 214
LISTOFILLUSTRATIONS
Edith Wharton about 1884 xxiii
Figure 1 1 Edith and Teddy Wharton, Henry James, and Charles
Cook in Touring Car at The Mount 38
Figure 2 1 The Casino, Villa Farnese, Caprarola 60
Figure 2 2 Cascade and Rotunda, Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati 69
Figure 2 3 Villa Lancellotti, Frascati 75
Figure 2 4 Val San Zibio, near Battaglia 80
Figure 2 5 The Botanic Garden of Padua 82
Figure 3 1 By the Port of Lovere 96
Figure 3 2 Chiesa dei Miracoli—Brescia 99
Figure 3 3 Court of the Palazzo Marino, now the Municipio 103
Figure 3 4 The Church at Saronno 108
Figure 4 1 Rouen: The Facade of the Church of Saint-Maclou 112
Figure 4 2 Le Petit Andely: View of the Town
and Chateau GaiUard 115
Figure 4 3 Chateau of Maintenon 119
Figure 4 4 Poitiers: The Church of Notre-Dame-la-Grande 129
Figure 51A French palisade: Edith Wharton at the Front,
c 1915 132
Figure 5 2 Sketch map of region around the Forest of Argonne 138
Figure 5 3 Ruins of General Lyautey s house in Crevic 160
Figure 7 1 The Sultan of Morocco under the green umbrella
(atMeknez, 1916) 186
Figure 7 2 The Sultan entering Marrakech in state 195
Figure 7 3 Women watching a procession from a roof 201
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