Madame de Treymes and Three Novellas
$37.90
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
28 February 1996
Summary
Madame de Treymes, Edith Wharton’s first publication after the highly successful The House of Mirth, is a captivating portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. Inspired by Wharton’s own entré into Parisian society in 1906 and reminiscent of the works of Henry James, it tells the story of two young innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, and John Durham, her childhood friend who arrives in Paris intent…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684806846 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0684806843 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton |
| Publisher: | Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) |
| Imprint: | Prentice Hall & IBD |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 1996 |
| Weight: | 377g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 33mm |
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Gore Vidal There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as “major” – and Edith Wharton is one.
Gore Vidal There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as “major” – and Edith Wharton is one.
About The Author
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
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