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Edith Wharton: The Sense Of Harmony
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![](/rcimages/rc1big.jpg) (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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From filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard comes a definitive Iook at one of the greatest visionaries of the Gilded Age -- a literary genius, cosmopoIitan and activist, whose vivid portrayal of society still resonates today: Edith Wharton. A born storytelIer whose career stretched over forty years, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from YaIe and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Best known for writing such iconic novels as The Age of lnnocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Custom of the Country, she was aIso a taIented designer, a tireIess traveIIer and a passionate philanthropist. From the beaches of Newport to the front Iines of WWl France and beyond, Edith Wharton: The Sense of Harmony takes a sweeping look at the Iife and Iegacy of the literary master. Featuring interviews with distinguished biographers Louis Auchincloss, R.W.B. Lewis and EIeanor Dwight, as welI as writer Colin Clark and historian Sir Steven Runciman, this documentary portrait aIso incIudes the onIy known film footage of Wharton in existence. |
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