No gifts from chance : a biography of Edith Wharton /

No gifts from chance : a biography of Edith Wharton / Shari Benstock.

The first new biography of America's foremost woman of letters in twenty years, No Gifts from Chance presents an Edith Wharton for our times. Far from the emotionally withdrawn and neurasthenic victim of earlier portraits, she is revealed here as an ambitious, disciplined, and self-determined w...

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Main Author: Benstock, Shari, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Toronto : New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, [1994]
Subjects:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Women intellectuals > United States > Biography.
Americans > France > History > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > War work > France.
France > Intellectual life > 20th century.

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Call Number: PS3545.H16 Z595 1994
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