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Motor-Flight Through France
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Artikel-Nr:
9780875806860
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.11.2012
Seiten:
253
Autor:
Edith Wharton
Gewicht:
405 g
Format:
203x134x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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...
Table of ContentsPrefaceNote on the TextIntroduction by Mary Suzanne SchriberPart II. Boulogne to AmiensII. Beauvais and RouenIII. From Rouen to FontainebleauIV. The Loire and the IndreV. Nohant to ClermontVI. In AuvergeVII. Royat to BourgesPart III. Paris to PoitiersII. Poitiers to the PyreneesIII. The Pyrenees to ProvenceIV. The Rhone to the SeinePart IIIA Flight to the North-East