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The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War

Door A. Price

Categorie
WO I
Boeknummer
#328843-ZA8
Titel
The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War
Auteur
Price, A.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Robert Hale
Jaar van uitgave
1998
ISBN10
0709062567
ISBN13
9780709062561
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Thoughts of Edith Wharton conjure images of upper-class life in turn-of-the-century New York City: hansom cabs wait curbside in front of Washington Square townhouses; chandeliers glow above the heads of waltzing couples. What does not come to mind immediately is the tough-mindedness of Wharton herself and the efforts she put forth on behalf of others. Alan Price illuminates this side of Wharton in The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War.
During World War I, Wharton saved the lives of thousands of Belgian and French refugees. When the war began, the expatriated Wharton and Henry James saw any possible German victory as ''the crash of civilization,'' thus prompting their early involvement in the allied cause. In the opening weeks of the conflict, Wharton wrote... (Lees verder) war reportage at the front and organized relief efforts in Paris. Before the first year was over, she had created organizations and raised funds for three major war charities that bore her name. As the war sank into a stalemate of trench warfare, Wharton continued to write magazine and newspaper articles, organize fundraising schemes, and rally famous painters, composers, and writers to help sway American popular opinion and raise money for refugees. The End of the Age of Innocence tells the dramatic story of Wharton's heroic crusade to save the lives of displaced Belgians and the suffering citizens of her adopted France.
Pagina's
238
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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