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OverviewThe definitive biography of one of America's greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hermione LeePublisher: Knopf Publishing Group Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 5.30cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 1.315kg ISBN: 9780375400049ISBN 10: 0375400044 Pages: 869 Publication Date: 10 April 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: In stock Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsLively . . . Insightful . . . Thorough and intelligent . . .This meticulous, generous biography is likely to suffice for a long time . . . One can at last grasp the full range of Wharton's writing and the full power of her energy. <br>-Diane Johnson, Washington Post Book World <br> A splendid biography, extremely rich in social and historical detail, a telling picture of the many years Wharton's life spanned . . . Biography is usually the revenge of little people on big people . . .but Lee is subtle and big-hearted enough to understand her subject . . . Lee never reduces Wharton's books to veiled autobiography, just as she is never reluctant to interpret them in the light of Wharton's life . . . A sophisticated, finely written portrait . . . Edith Wharton would have been horrified by the 'indiscretions' in this biography, but it is the balanced, richly detailed, and researched portrait she deserves. <br>-Edmund White, The New York Review of Books <br> A rich tapestry. There is so much here . . . Edith Wharton shimmers with details about a vanished world, and Lee . . . brings it to vivid life. <br>-Jacqueline Blais, USA Today <br> A remarkable feat . . . Nobody has done Edith Wharton such careful justice as Lee. <br>-Claire Messud, New York Times Book Review <br> Magnificent . . . Unsurpassable in scope and surely in sensitivity . . . Filled to bursting with the friends, travels, projects and writings that engaged Wharton's attention and energies. <br>-Linda Simon, Newsday <br> Groundbreaking . . . A sophisticated, persuasive, powerfully intelligent masterwork. <br>-Lisa Shea, Elle <br> Enables readers to feel they have known Mrs. W. all their lives. <br>-Barbara Amiel, Wall Street Journal <br> Stunning . . . Rich . . . Wonderfully humanizing. <br>-Megan O'Grady, Vogue <br> Rich . . . Fine . . . Much more than a literary study. <br>-Bruce Allen, The Washington Times <br> Elegant . . . not only the best book on its subject, but one of the finest literary biographies to appear in recent years. <br>-Greg Johnson, Atlanta Journal-Constitution <br> A fascinating portrait of a brilliant writer. <br>- The Economist <br> Absorbing . . . An exemplary biography . . . Sure to be the standard work on Wharton for years to come. <br>- Kirkus <br> A major achievement . . . In no other biography is there a more perceptive analysis of how Wharton's life was reflected in her work. <br>- Publishers Weekly <br> Tremendous . . . Enlightening . . . Rises to landmark status . . . The formidable Mrs. Wharton is given great humanity here. <br>- Booklist <br> The fullest biography of Wharton to date . . . Superb in using the fiction as a way to read the life, defining their relation in a way that is at once seamless but never simplified . . . Lee's portraiture at its best seems Proustian. <br>-Michael Gorra, Times Literary Supplement (London) <br> Monumentally conceived and impressively executed . . . Lee is out to understand Wharton, not to vilify or sanctify her . . . She is a discriminating and generous critic who offers full, fresh and incisive discussions of all the novels and scores of the short stories. <br>-Elaine Showalter, The Guardian (London) <br> Epic and definitive . . . Lee is a confident and vivid critic. <br>-Jane Shilling, The Times (London) <br> This is a glorious biography . . . The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of thisintimacy and on this scale . . . Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner . . . Her critical exploration of Edith Wharton's work is dazzlingly assured . . . A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Wharton's creative achievement at the same time . . . [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by . . . its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception. <br>-Mark Bostridge, The Independent on Sunday (London) <br> Excellent . . . Particularly masterful in her discussion of Wharton's fiction . . . A magnificent and subtle biography of a magnificent and subtle writer. <br>-Caroline Moore, Sunday Telegraph (London) <br> Lee's subtle and painstaking ability to illuminate the work with the life, and to make the life itself so interesting makes this a superb biography. <br>-Colm Toibin, The Irish Times Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |