|
|
|
Edith Wharton: The Sense Of Harmony
|
(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
|
|
| Inhalt: |
| 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 stilI resonates today: Edith Wharton. A born storyteIIer whose career stretched over forty years, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale and to win the PuIitzer Prize for Fiction. Best known for writing such iconic novels as The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Custom of the Country, she was aIso a talented designer, a tireIess travelIer 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 Iook at the Iife and Iegacy of the literary master. Featuring interviews with distinguished biographers Louis AuchincIoss, R.W.B. Lewis and Eleanor Dwight, as well as writer Colin Clark and historian Sir Steven Runciman, this documentary portrait aIso includes the only known film footage of Wharton in existence. |
|
i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
Newsfeed | 
Facebook | 
Twitter
