Beautifully and elegantly written by a really witty and consummate craftsman of the written word. Full of reminiscences aboard Edith Wharton's yacht, boyhood in Philadelphia, a first trip abroad, Haverford College, Harvard, youthful associates, a year in Germany, a few months at home in the family business, then the determination to live abroad and write. Manuscript hunting, Oxford, the Paris of Whistler, Henry James, ten years in Sussex. Sage and entertaining literary chit-chat, delightfully done...
