Edith Wharton

Written by Hermione Lee

Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70287-7 (0-375-70287-3)

From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, 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... Read more >

Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters

Written by Edith Wharton
Introduction by Hermione Lee

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26825-9 (0-307-26825-X)

These brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton’s characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton’s most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a... Read more >

Edith Wharton

Written by Hermione Lee

Format: Hardcover, 880 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40004-9 (0-375-40004-4)

Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Hermione 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 in 1862, Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled... Read more >

Virginia Woolf

Written by Hermione Lee

Format: Trade Paperback, 944 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70136-8 (0-375-70136-2)

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Willa Cather
Double Lives
Written by Hermione Lee

Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 5, 1991
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73649-3 (0-679-73649-2)


Cather is usually read as a nostalgic celebrator of the American past. Lee explores a stranger and more complex Cather, whose life and work are rife with split identities, sexual conflicts and stoic fatalism.

“The extremely well-traveled, versatile, and prolific Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a private person and hence ‘a resistant... Read more >