Italian Villas and Their Gardens (Classic Reprint)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1330138163 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 374 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wharton died in 1937, leaving behind a rich literary legacy. A member of the New York elite, Wharton drew on her experiences as part of society to critique its inner workings and the conflict between personal desires and societal norms. About the Author Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, known for such classics as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
I am very satisfied by this work A lovely reproduction by Rizzoli and The Mount Press. I am very satisfied by this work, especially the dust jacket in brocaded damask fabric covering th gold gilding on the title front book cover. What a nice surprise!!!! The Maxfield Parrish illustraton show nicely; the type font is a photographic copy along with the page numbers which are not so vivid as in the ori. half page landscape scan This title has been scanned so that all of the pages are half pages in landscape mode. You will see the top half of a page, then the bottom half on the following kindle page. It is not too bad if you are ONLY interested in the text, but the images and photographs are cut in half and some of the text lines are partially cut off. I would not recommend this version.. Bert Coen said Buyer beware. I was not happy with the quality of the product. I received a photo copy of a library book, complete with return instructions stamped on the back page, not what I was expecting at all. The quality of the pictures are terrible,because they are copies of black and white pictures, some of them are impossible to see clearly.I purchased this book as a gift ,which I could
A member of the New York elite, Wharton drew on her experiences as part of society to critique its inner workings and the conflict between personal desires and societal norms. Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, known for such classics as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. . Wharton died in 1937, leaving behind a rich literary legacy
She then went on a four-month tour of Italy, which is described in loving detail in Italian Villas and Their Gardens. Cultural tensions also figure prominently, whether they are between new conventions and old traditions, or between European mores and American ways. Wharton had a passion for European culture and she displays quite a command of Italian garden architecture in Italian Villas and Their Gardens. She used descriptions of houses and their surroundings as expressions of her characters' inner struggles. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve th