Mysteries of Paris : The Quest for Morton Fullerton
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584650087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 357 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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A great vacation book 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 rogue M. Fullerton's life. I loved the descriptions of Paris, the street scenes and the old buildings with their old bureacrats serving as gatekeepers to the dusty stacks of information in the registries of births, deaths and marriages. In her quest f. A fascinating life but a tedious book 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 somewhat confused account of the slanging match she got into with Wharton's official biographer (about how she did all the research for his book but got no credit, blah blah blah). All of it's pretty tiring and you get the feeling that Mainwaring is desp. The Ultimate Mystery--How This Got Published. 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, than it degenerates into incomprehensible ramblings. Rather than learning bit by bit in an engaging way about the wonders of turn of the century Paris and it's denizens--particularly Edith Wharton and her rakish secret lover, we learn only that the w
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. Mainwaring was put on Fullerton's trail by Wharton's official biographer, R.W.B. The carefully concealed liaison with Wharton was only the first of Fullerton's many secrets. When Wharton first met Fullerton on home leave, she was a publicly established novelist in a privately unhappy marriage, and he, on the surface, wa
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