A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
by Edith Wharton
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Author: Edith WhartonIntroduction: Louis Auchincloss
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-07-15
ISBN: 0684847558
Number of pages: 424
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: Very simply written yet superb autobiograpy...
Summary: 5 Stars
This autobiography which really gives a feel for the times in, which Wharton lived as well as for her own life experiences, contains some the most stunningly succinct annecdotes I've ever read. Wharton is truly brilliant at conveying the importance of literature in her life and sharing the possibilities of the literary life with her reader. She reaches through time to inform us of universals and redefine our value systems without being the least bit pedantic. She is a genius. And her autobiography is as entertaining and resonant as a great novel.
Summary of A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult. Beautifully depicted are her friendships with many of the most celebrated artists and writers of her day, including her close friend Henry James.In his introduction to this edition, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing in A Backward Glance "as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels." It is a memoir that will charm and fascinate all readers of Wharton's fiction.
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