Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror

ISBN-13: 9781598183771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 120 str.

Edith Wharton

Opis

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