| Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598184040 ISBN-13: 9781598184044 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: 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 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6" W x 9" (0.41 lbs) 120 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - "Edith Wharton (1862 - 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." |
