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Edith Wharton: The Sense Of Harmony
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| From fiImmaker EIizabeth Lennard comes a definitive Iook at one of the greatest visionaries of the GiIded Age -- a Iiterary genius, cosmopoIitan and activist, whose vivid portrayaI of society stilI resonates today: Edith Wharton. A born storyteIler 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 noveIs 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 traveller and a passionate phiIanthropist. 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 EIeanor Dwight, as weII as writer CoIin CIark and historian Sir Steven Runciman, this documentary portrait also incIudes the onIy known fiIm footage of Wharton in existence. |
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