Madame de Treymes (1907) by: Edith Wharton (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530607556)

Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French aristocratic family. He loses, but they cheat. . . . In a masterpiece of brevity, Wharton dramatizes the contrast between the two opposing forces: the simple and proper old brownstone New York, low in style but high in principle, and the achingly beautiful but decadent Saint-Germain district of Paris. The issue is seamlessly joined. Louis Auchincloss in the "Wall Street Journal," 2006

Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN-10: 1530607558
ISBN-13: 9781530607556
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2016
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.08d