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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

Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. i]In Morocco /i] is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society,... Read Full Overview

In Morocco is an excellent travelogue written by Edith Wharton following her visit to the country in 1917 during the turmoil of World War I. Wharton traveled with a French General in a motorcar for much of her trip.Edith Wharton was one of the greatest authors of the early 20th... Read Full Overview

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview

In Morocco is the 1920 travelogue by the famous author Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton combined an insider's view of American aristocracy with a powerful prose style. Her novels and short stories realistically portrayed... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton, American novelist and designer Edith Wharton travelled to Morocco A classic of travel writing In Morocco is her account of this journey through the country's cities and through its deserts.In Morocco isn't really a travel journal, since it hardly includes any personal... Read Full Overview

"I stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ... and look out on a land of mists and mysteries; a land of trailing silver veils through which domes and minarets, mighty towers and ramparts of flushed stone, hot palm groves and Atlas snows, peer and disappear at the will... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton combined an insider's view of American aristocracy with a powerful prose style. Her novels and short stories realistically portrayed... Read Full Overview

This feeling of adventure is heightened by the contrast between Tangier-cosmopolitan, frowsy, familiar Tangier, that every tourist has visited for the last forty years-and the vastunknown just beyond. One has met, of course, travellers who have been to Fez; but theyhave gone... Read Full Overview

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.The sensation is attainable by any one who will take the trouble to row out into the harbour of Algeciras... Read Full Overview

This feeling of adventure is heightened by the contrast between Tangier-cosmopolitan, frowsy, familiar Tangier, that every tourist has visited for the last forty years-and the vastunknown just beyond. One has met, of course, travellers who have been to Fez; but theyhave gone... Read Full Overview

"THE publication of In Morocco, by Mrs. Wharton, is practically simultaneous with that of her most recent novel, The Age of Innocence. Both of these books add security to their author's position as one of the foremost contemporary writers of English prose. The one reveals her... Read Full Overview

In Morocco Edith Wharton is a great novel .The great American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) here gives us her colorful and textured travel memoir "In Morroco" (1920). Still a deeply energized work, Wharton imbues the reader with a sense of wonder that served as the impetus... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: ...there are other things to think about. At the first turn out of Tangier, Europe and the European disappear, and as soon as the motor begins to dip and rise over the arid little hills beyond to the last gardens one is sure that every figure on the road will be... Read Full Overview

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in acountry without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletestsight-seer.The sensation is attainable by any one who will take the trouble to row out into theharbour of Algeciras... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the... Read Full Overview