Mysteries of Paris : The Quest for Morton Fullerton
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (933 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584650087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 357 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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A great vacation book Maianna von Hippel I greatly enjoyed this book after I realized it was not a quick read of connecting the dots/facts and racing to a conclusion. The joy of this book is that it offers the reader the chance to join Mainwaring as she roams through Paris seeking out the truths of. "A fascinating life but a tedious book" according to A Customer. Basicly, this book is an account by Marion Mainwaring about the research she did to write it. She goes to the south of France, she reads some old letters, she talks to some people who knew Morton Fullerton late in life. Etc. etc. Along the way she gives a so. The Ultimate Mystery--How This Got Published. A Customer A virtually impossible read, this book pretends to be like Richard Holmes' wonderful "In the Footsteps of A Romantic Biographer" but it most assuredly is NOT. Here, instead of footsteps, we have sink-holes. No sooner does a paragraph begin to entice interest
Mainwaring's elliptical biography of this peripheral expatriate often resembles James's The Aspern Papers in that the portrait it attempts to paint is often overshadowed by the biographer's own travails. From Publishers Weekly Morton Fullerton, Edith Wharton's secret lover and a friend of Henry James, served as the model for George Darrow in Wharton's The Reef and Merton Densher in James's The Wings of the Dove. Lewis, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning biography unfortunately contained some errors concerning Mainwaring's research about Ad?le Mirecourt, one of Fullerton's ex-lovers who was blackmailing him during his affair with Wharton. . He had lovers of both sexes, had been married and divorced, and inflated his professio
The story of Edith Wharton's lover, a man of boundless charm and deceit.