Madame de Treymes

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

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 87

• Publisher
• Penguin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-600015-7

• EAN
• 9780146000157

• Genres
• classics, fiction, american, literature, novels

• Release date
• 1995