A Feast of Words, Cynthia Griffin Wolff
A Feast of Words, Cynthia Griffin Wolff
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A Feast of Words
The Triumph of Edith Wharton

Author: Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 19 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/04/2009

Synopsis

The mystery of how a wealthy New York socialite became a major American novelist is brilliantly explored in this fascinating critical biography, widely considered to be the most perceptive introduction to Edith Whartons life and work. This new edition includes two chapters: one on Lily Bart and the lethal stereotypes of women on the nineteenthcentury stage, and another on the way Whartons own sensual awakening led from the frozen austerity of Ethan Frome to the lyricism and tempered happiness of Summer. Everyone who admires Whartons novels or enjoys the films made from them will want to experience this superb biography.

About Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Cynthia Griffin Wolff received her PhD in English at Harvard University in 1965 and taught literature for many years at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The author of the highly acclaimed biographies Emily Dickinson and Samuel Richardson and the Eighteenth-Century Puritan Character, she holds the 1922 Professorship of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an honorary board member of the Mount, the Edith Wharton Restoration Foundation in Lenox, Masachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda

This is much more than an interesting biography. Wolff provides in depth analysis of Wharton’s works, the Pulitzer Prize winning, “The Age of Innocence”, “The House of Mirth”, “Ethan Frome”, and “The Custom of the Country”, among my favorites. I’m a big fan of Edith Wharton, and I enjoyed reading abou......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Wolff tells a great story intermittently, looking at both Wharton's life and her works, sometimes intermingling them and that is the problem. Right when I think the book is going great she brings in a bunch of psychoanalytical babble and mixes the life with nonsense. This was so bad at times that I......more

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