A Son at the Front
Autor Edith Whartonen Limba Engleză Hardback – sep 1995
Wharton's antiwar masterpiece, now once again available, probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Interweaving her own experiences of the Great War with themes of parental and filial love, art and self-sacrifice, national loyalties and class privilege, Wharton tells an intimate and captivating story of war behind the lines.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780875802039
ISBN-10: 0875802036
Pagini: 239
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
Colecția Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10: 0875802036
Pagini: 239
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
Colecția Northern Illinois University Press
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Recenzii
"Extraordinarily poignant.... Heartrending, tragic, powerful, this is not to be missed."—Publishers Weekly
"Wharton has done nothing that equals this."—New York Times Book Review (1923)
"Wharton has painted a moving landscape."—War, Literature & the Arts
"Wharton has done nothing that equals this."—New York Times Book Review (1923)
"Wharton has painted a moving landscape."—War, Literature & the Arts
Cuprins
Table of Contents
Introduction by Shari Benstock
Book One: Chapters I–IX
Book Two: Chapters X–XXIII
Book Three: Chapters XXIV–XXXI
Book Four: Chapters XXXII–XXXVI
Book One: Chapters I–IX
Book Two: Chapters X–XXIII
Book Three: Chapters XXIV–XXXI
Book Four: Chapters XXXII–XXXVI
Descriere
Wharton's antiwar masterpiece, now once again available, probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Interweaving her own experiences of the Great War with themes of parental and filial love, art and self-sacrifice, national loyalties and class privilege, Wharton tells an intimate and captivating story of war behind the lines.
Notă biografică
>Julie Olin-Ammentorp is Professor of English at Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY). She is the author of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture (2019) and Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War (2004), as well as of many articles and book chapters, including essays in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton (ed. Emily Orlando, 2022) and The New Edith Wharton Studies (ed. Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray, 2020). She is a past president of the Edith Wharton Society and serves on the editorial board of The Edith Wharton Review.