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Madame de Treymes. By: Edith Wharton (illustrated): Novel (World's classic's)

Madame de Treymes. By: Edith Wharton (illustrated): Novel (World's classic's)

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ISBN10: 1542409926
ISBN13: 9781542409926
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 7 2017
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.

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