{"product_id":"edith-wharton-ambassador-book-awards-9780375702877","title":"Edith Wharton: Ambassador Book Awards","description":"From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHermione Lee\u003c\/b\u003e is the first woman Goldsmiths' Professor of English at Oxford University. Her books include the internationally acclaimed biography, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBody Parts: Essays on Life-writing\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also a well-known critic, and is the Chair of the Judges for the Man Booker Prize, 2006.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844402450706,"sku":"9780375702877","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c5b2e37f-da06-4acb-a1ca-faa4709a0a76.jpg?v=1737318989","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/edith-wharton-ambassador-book-awards-9780375702877","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}