The Cruise of the Vanadis

The Cruise of the Vanadis

by EdithWharton (Author)

Synopsis

The Cruise of the Vanadis is Wharton's elegant record of that journey. As sophisticated and erudite as any of Wharton's novels, the diary lay undiscovered until recently when scholar Claudine Lesage found it on a dusty library shelf in France. This beautiful illustrated edition marks the diary's first publication in the UK and provides a rare glimpse into the early career of one of America's most important writers. Annotated with timeless photographs by distinguished photographer Jonas Dovydenas, who faithfully retraced Wharton's route, this book is an invaluable addition to the Wharton canon.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: 1st Edition Uk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 01 Nov 2004

ISBN 10: 0747575681
ISBN 13: 9780747575689
Book Overview: The newly discovered travel memoir of one of America's greatest writers This beautifully packaged gift edition includes 50 colour photographs

Media Reviews
'In her log of the Vanadis we have a kind of dress rehearsal for the fiction of one of America's greatest novelists We see in what she wrote about her cruise that she was ready to set her stages, to fill her backgrounds, to create the world in which her characters would enact her plots. The characters and plots would come in due time' From the Introduction by Louis Auchincloss
Author Bio
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is the author of more than forty books including timeless classics such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. She was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and is now widely recognised as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Jonas Dovydenas' photographs have appeared in Time, American Photographer, National Geographic Adventure, Soldier of Fortune, and others. He has been a Trustee of Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. for many years.