Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount

by Richard Guy Wilson

The Mount, Edith Wharton's country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth.

The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book The Decoration of Houses, and the surrounding landscape displays her deep knowledge of Italian gardens. Wandering the grounds of this historic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580933289
• ISBN13: 9781580933285
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.4" x 10.3"