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Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings 1888-1920
written by Edith Wharton, edited by Sarah Bird Wright

A collection of Edith Wharton's best and most evocative travel writing

Edith Wharton Abroad spans a period of three decades: from a time of leisurely travel during the belle epoque through the horror and pathos of the French landscape during World War I, to the Morocco of 1917 - a country previously forbidden to most women and foreigners. Scornful of guidebooks, Wharton focuses instead on the "parentheses of travel" - the undiscovered byways of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. She describes art, architecture, and landscape with the eye of a knowledgeable connoisseur and the sensitivity of an observant and imaginative novelist.

"Whether she is exploring the Swiss mountains, the Italian monasteries, the exotic markets of Morocco, or the front lines of WWI Europe, Wharton's eye for detail serves her well. She annoints these passages with the same gracefulness with which she approaches her novels - all that seems to be missing is the dialogue."
--Entertainment Weekly

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