| Coming Home Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438573448 ISBN-13: 9781438573441 Publisher: Book Jungle OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.1" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.22 lbs) 48 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Edith Wharton's novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect and interior designer. She left America for France beginning in 1907 and stayed during World War 1. Even though a foreigner she remained and helped the refugees wherever she could. Ethan Frome is her most famous work. Coming Home was first published in 1915. It is the story of a French soldier who takes his revenge on a barbaric German officer. The French soldier's fianc e gave herself to the German so that he will spare her family and their home. |