Motor-Flight Through France

Edith Wharton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

253 Seiten

2012
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-87580-686-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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