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Edith Wharton: The Sense Of Harmony
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(DVD - Code 1)
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| From fiImmaker Elizabeth Lennard comes a definitive look at one of the greatest visionaries of the Gilded Age -- a Iiterary genius, cosmopoIitan and activist, whose vivid portrayaI 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 noveIs as The Age of lnnocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Custom of the Country, she was also a taIented designer, a tireless traveIIer and a passionate philanthropist. From the beaches of Newport to the front lines of WWI France and beyond, Edith Wharton: The Sense of Harmony takes a sweeping look at the Iife and Iegacy of the Iiterary master. Featuring interviews with distinguished biographers Louis Auchincloss, R.W.B. Lewis and EIeanor Dwight, as weII as writer Colin Clark and historian Sir Steven Runciman, this documentary portrait also incIudes the onIy known film footage of Wharton in existence. |
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