Plot
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
Book Details
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| Publication Year | 1995 |
| Publisher | Penguin (Non-Classics) |
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780146000157 |
| Number of Pages | 96 |