Madame de Treymes
Synopsis
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.
- Derechos de autor:
- 2013 Start Classics
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781627939669
- Publisher:
- Start Classics
- Date of Addition:
- 2016-07-11T05:31:17Z
- Idioma:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.