Wharton's quest for the perfect house - from Pencraig, her parents' "cottage" in Newport, R.I., to her own house, the Mount, in Lenox, Mass., to those two French locations where she spent the prolific years of her 50's and 60's Of Fiction" (1925) to "A Backward Glance" (1934), these settings provoked a torrent of fiction, criticism and memoir. From "The Age of Innocence" (1920) to "The Writing They were constructions that mirrored some inner geography and had the power to release her creativity. Both houses were more than just dwellings. And indeed she was to have her most prolific period in the 1920's - while dividing her time between this Mediterranean retreat and a grand house, Her delight in renovating a ruined fortress above the Mediterranean at Hyeres, France. and I feel as if I were going to get married - to the right man at last!" Edith Wharton wrote to a friend about DecemEver So Humble or Ever So Proud, There's No Place Like Home For Framing Castles in the Sky By ERICA JONG AM thrilled to the spine.
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