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Italian Backgrounds (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection)
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781556854125
Edition: Unabridged
Format: Unabridged
ISBN: 1556854129
Label: Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
Manufacturer: Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: January 30, 1996
Publisher: Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
Studio: Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
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Editorial Review:
Edith Wharton's Italian Backgrounds, out of print since its original edition published in 1906, is a welcome discovery for lovers of that rich literary genre, the travel diary. Wharton, whose writings are today enjoying a revived interest, excels, as always, in detailing the milieu of her characters, here the Italian people, and that ancient country itself.
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Rating:  - Thoughtful, Fascinating Travels Essays - Italy, 1901-1904
Italian Backgrounds is comprised of nine, loosely coupled travel essays written by Edith Wharton over a four year period (1901-1904). Few readers are likely to possess her remarkable knowledge of Italian paintings, murals, frescoes, sculpture, and architecture, and in the hands of a lesser writer, these essays might easily have become tedious and overly detailed. Wharton's essays achieve a singular balance between scholarly analysis and captivating memoir.
Italian Backgrounds begins ... Read More
Rating:  - She knows her Italy!
"Italian Backgrounds" by Edith Wharton is a somewhat charming travel book (a quick read) about her time in Italy as its veteran traveler. The piece is not written in a narrative, but is rather more thematically arranged. Wharton doesn't write about the Doges Palace or the Duomo, her milieu is the deeper background of the dedicated traveler.
The title comes from her theme derived from an analogy that traveling in Italy involves various areas of a painting. Italian paintings, she writes, ... Read More
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