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Madame de Treymes

By Edith Wharton

2019-09-12 19:04:26

Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but the moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French ... Read more
Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but the 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. Less

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File size56.216 KB
Print pages52
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date1995-09-01
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780146000157
Edith Wharton (Jan 24, 1862 – Aug 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to realist...

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