Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens

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By (author): "Vivian Russell"
Publish Date: September 26th 1997
Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens
ISBN0821223976
ISBN139780821223970
AsinEdith Wharton's Italian Gardens
Original titleEdith Wharton's Italian Gardens
Edith Wharton's current and richly deserved renaissance, fueled by acclaimed film adaptations of three of her novels, The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, and Ethan Frome, has given her work a large contemporary audience. Wharton was also a passionate gardener -- and her descriptions of Italian gardens are among the most lyrical ever written.Wharton devotees, gardeners, and Italophiles alike will delight in following Vivian Russell as she tours Italy in Wharton's footsteps. Russell combines passages from Wharton's 1904 travel book Italian Villas and Their Gardens with insights from other literary garden visitors such as Charles Dickens and Henry James, and a lavish array of 180 new color photographs by Russell that show the gardens and villas today -- plus 30 historical photographs that present them as they were in Wharton's golden age.