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The Cruise of The Vanadis The manuscript lay untouched and undiscovered for the next one hundred years. It was the winter of 1888.During the cruise Wharton elegantly recorded her reactions to each place along the route. Edith
| Title | : | The Cruise of The Vanadis |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (772 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0847826090 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2004-06-19 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
In collaboration with Edith Wharton Restoration, Rizzoli is proud to participate in a rare literary event-the publication of a recently discovered manuscript by Edith Wharton, one of America's greatest writers. It was the winter of 1888. Edith Wharton was 26 and had been married three years. She confided in a Newport friend and cousin-in-law, James Van Alen, that there was nothing she wanted more than to make a cruise in the Mediterranean. Van Alen arranged for the charter of a yacht called the Vanadis, and Edith and her husband set off on the trip of a lifetime.During the cruise Wharton elegantly recorded her reactions to each place along the route. Afterwards, she put the manuscript aside and began to work on her first novel. The manuscript lay untouched and undiscovered for the next one hundred years.Annotated with timeless photographs and commentary by award-winning photographer Jonas Dovydenas, who faithfully retraced Wharton's route, and with a new introduction by renowned noveli
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was one of America's greatest writers. The author of more than forty books, including The Age of Innocence, Wharton was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Wharton was the principal designer of her 1902 country home The Mount in Lenox, Mass. The Mount's elegant house and gardens reflect the neoclassical design principles that she espoused in her works The Decoration of Houses and Italian Villas and Their Gardens.
Jonas Dovydenas is a freelance photographer whose work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Library of Congress, and The Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Jonas Dovydenas is a freelance photographer whose work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Library of Congress, and The Minneapolis Institute of Art.
To my mind, he would have done better to include some Bonaventure, Dante and Schopenhauer, for instance, and a little more material from Plato, Aristotle and Kant--who even now, are more widely read and more cogent than some of the additional writers Ross did include.
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In sum, if you want an anthology that comes close to covering all the essential writers on the subject (past and present) and doing it fairly well, "Art and Its Significance" is perhaps your best choice despite its nod to trendiness. 3 pant styles
5. I found there was interesting information---particularly in the first half, but the author is condescending, euro-centric, racist. MANY pieces to practice we use these in our cello group and my instructor uses it for my lessons as well. They go on adventures and run into cool and creative obstacles along the way. I am hoping this helps you in the same way it did me; Keep at it and don’t ever be discouraged, this is all about familiarizing yourself with t
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