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Fighting France is a classic World War One memoirby Edith Wharton. The next day the air was thundery with rumours. Nobody believed them, everybody repeated them. War? Of course there couldn't be war The Cabinets, like naughty children, were again dangling their feet over the... Read Full Overview

In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included... Read Full Overview

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This book forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have re-typed, re-formatted, and re-published the book in a very... Read Full Overview

As nuanced in her observations of human behavior as she is in her vivid depictions of French landscape and architecture, Wharton fully exploited her unique position as consort to Walter Barry, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, which allowed her unparalleled... Read Full Overview

On the 30th of July, 1914, motoring north from Poitiers, we had lunched somewhere by the roadside under apple-trees on the edge of a field. Other fields stretched away on our right and left to a border of woodland and a village steeple. All around was noonday quiet, and the sober... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

On the 30th of July, 1914, motoring north from Poitiers, we had lunched somewhere by the roadside under apple-trees on the edge of a field. Other fields stretched away on our right and left to a border of woodland and a village steeple. All around was noonday... Read Full Overview

The FAST FORWARD INDEPENDENT TEXTS reinforce the skills and knowledge students have gained from instructional /guided reading sessions. The FAST FORWARD INDEPENDENT TEXTS are carefully levellled for independent reading allowing children to experience reading success on their... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

El d a 30 de julio de 1914, tras salir de Poitiers con direcci n norte, almorzamos bajo los manzanos en un lugar pr ximo a la carretera, a los pies de una pradera. Ante nuestros ojos, a derecha e izquierda, se extend an nuevos terrenos agrestes que conduc an hacia un bosque y... Read Full Overview

Dans ce livre, Edith Wharton, auteure renomm e du XXe si cle, raconte son exp rience en France pendant la Premi re Guerre mondiale. Elle dresse un portrait saisissant de la France en guerre, de Dunkerque Belfort, et partage ses observations sur la soci t et la culture fran... Read Full Overview