Motor-Flight Through France
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2012
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-87580-686-0 (ISBN)
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-87580-686-0 (ISBN)
Shedding the constraints that existed for women in turn-of-the-century America, the author set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. Originally published in 1908, this book is considered by many to be the very best of the author's travel writings.
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.
Now back in print, this edition of will interest students of American literature as well as those who wish to see France through the eyes of a great American writer. The introduction analyzes Wharton's use of the genre of travel writing and places Wharton's work in the context of her life and times.
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.
Now back in print, this edition of will interest students of American literature as well as those who wish to see France through the eyes of a great American writer. The introduction analyzes Wharton's use of the genre of travel writing and places Wharton's work in the context of her life and times.
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She is the author of such classics in American literature as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome.
Table of Contents
Preface
Note on the Text
Introduction by Mary Suzanne Schriber
Part I
I. Boulogne to Amiens
II. Beauvais and Rouen
III. From Rouen to Fontainebleau
IV. The Loire and the Indre
V. Nohant to Clermont
VI. In Auverge
VII. Royat to Bourges
Part II
I. Paris to Poitiers
II. Poitiers to the Pyrenees
III. The Pyrenees to Provence
IV. The Rhone to the Seine
Part III
A Flight to the North-East
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa |
| Reiseführer ► Europa ► Frankreich | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-87580-686-4 / 0875806864 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-87580-686-0 / 9780875806860 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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