{"id":141,"date":"2025-02-12T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2025-02-14T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:00:08","slug":"buy-the-book-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/?page_id=141","title":{"rendered":"The Decoration of Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Praise for Emily J. Orlando\u2019s annotated edition of\u00a0<em>The Decoration of Houses<\/em>\u00a0by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142\" width=\"325\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture1.png 488w, https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture1-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cOrlando\u2019s stunning introduction and thorough annotations showcase her deep familiarity with the text and its authors, and illuminate the book\u2019s composition, contexts, history, and reception, as well as its enduring influence today.\u201d\u2014Gary Totten, editor of\u00a0<em>Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn extraordinary fusion of scholarly book and practical can-do guide. It&#8217;s a must-read.\u201d\u2014Laura Rattray, author of\u00a0<em>Edith Wharton and Genre<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom Wharton\u2019s distaste for the vulgar to her delight in proportion, Orlando explores the background of the writer\u2019s early passion for beautiful living as the basis for the moral vision of her fictions.\u201d\u2014Dale M. Bauer, author of\u00a0<em>Edith Wharton\u2019s Brave New Politics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOrlando\u2019s authoritative edition of\u00a0<em>The Decoration of Houses<\/em>\u00a0expertly illuminates the breadth of Edith Wharton\u2019s knowledge of classical and renaissance architecture, late-Victorian design, and her thinking in the book about the relation between domestic space and lived experience.\u201d\u2014Paul Ohler, author of\u00a0<em>Edith Wharton\u2019s Evolutionary Conception: Darwinian Allegory in Her Major Novels<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise for Emily J. Orlando\u2019s annotated edition of\u00a0The Decoration of Houses\u00a0by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr: \u201cOrlando\u2019s stunning introduction <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/?page_id=141\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyorlando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}