Her book is beautifully summarising her impressions of the culture, of the history and the Moroccan people. Places she visited include Rabat, Fez, Moulay Idriss and Marrakech. This trip was the basis for her book "In Morocco", in which she documented her experience. Wharton was born during the Civil War her upbringing provided her with insights on the upper class, while her sense of humour and polished prose produced fiction that appealed to a large audience.Īt the end of the First World War Edith Wharton travelled to Morocco and explored the country for four weeks by military vehicle. She is the author of more than 40 volumes – novels, short stories, poetry, non-fiction – becoming the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Yale. With sometimes a bird’s song before dawn,Īnd always the call of the muezzin in the night.Įdith Wharton is one of the major figures in American literary history. Peer and disappear at the will of the Atlantic cloud drifts.įrom far off, through circuitous corridors,Ĭame the scent of citrus-blossom and jasmine, Mighty towers and ramparts of flushed stone, I stand in a portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas …Īnd look out on a land of mists and mysteries Ī land of trailing silver veils through which domes and minarets,
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