Skip to content

Fanny: A Fiction
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Fanny: A Fiction Hardcover - 2003

by Edmund White


From the publisher

In her fifties, Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend, the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her red hair flying, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright has convinced Frances to follow her to America, a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships, and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life.

The biography soon degenerates into a settling of scores and digressions on the misadventures of Mrs. Trollope's own family. By turns noble and petty, comic and tragic, it introduces us to literary lions, battling political theorists, gamblers and escaped slaves, and even the aging General Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. With hallucinatory realism, Mrs. Trollope paints French chteaux, Belgian fogs, Mississippi mud, and the gaudy splendors and cruelties of Haiti. And throughout this sparkling narrative, we find love in all its forms -- in the family, between races and generations, and within the same sex.

Fanny: A Fiction is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White -- a quirky, dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women, and a vibrant, questioning exploration of the nature of idealism, the clay feet of heroes, and the illusory power of the American dream.

First line

HASH(0x10abc030)

Details

  • Title Fanny: A Fiction
  • Author Edmund White
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date October 7, 2003
  • ISBN 9780060004842 / 0060004843
  • Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.12 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 15.54 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Biographical fiction, Feminists
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003045215
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Back to Top

More Copies for Sale

Fanny: A Fiction
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Fanny: A Fiction

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Eugene , Oregon, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$6.94
A$6.17 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Ecco / HarperCollins. Used - Good. DUST JACKET HAS SOME MINOR SHELF WEAR BUT BOOK REMAINS IN GOOD READABLE CONDITION. hardcover This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
Item Price
A$6.94
A$6.17 shipping to USA
Fanny:   A Fiction
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Fanny: A Fiction

by White, Edmund

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Syracuse, New York, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$7.73
A$9.28 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Ecco / HarperCollins. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060004843 . 369 pages .
Item Price
A$7.73
A$9.28 shipping to USA
Fanny A Fiction
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Fanny A Fiction

by White, Edmund

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Cooperstown, New York, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$9.28
A$11.60 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Harpercollins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Printing. Hardcover. 0060004843 . DJ has some light scuffing. .
Item Price
A$9.28
A$11.60 shipping to USA
Fanny: A Fiction
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Fanny: A Fiction

by White, Edmund

  • Used
Condition
UsedVeryGood
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Skokie, Illinois, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$9.42
A$6.19 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
UsedVeryGood.
Item Price
A$9.42
A$6.19 shipping to USA
Fanny: A Fiction

Fanny: A Fiction

by White, Edmund

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Seattle, Washington, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$10.19
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Ecco Press, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
A$10.19
FREE shipping to USA
Fanny: A Fiction
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Fanny: A Fiction

by White, Edmund

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Portland, Oregon, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$10.82
A$10.05 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Ecco / HarperCollins, 2003-10-07. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Minor shelf wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Dj lightly worn around edges with scuffs & creases. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
Item Price
A$10.82
A$10.05 shipping to USA
Fanny: A Fiction
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Fanny: A Fiction

by Edmund White

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
1
Seller
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$13.31
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Ecco / HarperCollins, 2003-10-01. Hardcover. Good.
Item Price
A$13.31
FREE shipping to USA
Fanny: a Fiction
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Fanny: a Fiction

by White, Edmund

  • Used
Condition
Used - Good
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
2
Seller
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$14.16
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Item Price
A$14.16
FREE shipping to USA
Fanny: A Fiction

Fanny: A Fiction

by Edmund White

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used; Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Port Neches, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$15.39
A$10.13 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Used; Very Good. 2-C-16 Ecco / Harpercollins 2003 Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free end page. A couple of pages have very light pencil markings which do not obscure text. Jacket has light wear. Book Condition; Very Good Jacket Condition; Very Good . 2003. HARDCOVER.
Item Price
A$15.39
A$10.13 shipping to USA
Fanny: A Fiction
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Fanny: A Fiction

by White, Edmund

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - VG
Edition
1st
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780060004842
ISBN 10
0060004843
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 2 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$18.56
A$5.80 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Ecco, 2003. 369pp. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed.. 1st. Hb. VG/VG.
Item Price
A$18.56
A$5.80 shipping to USA