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

Médias	Livres Hardcover Book (Livre avec dos et couverture rigide)
Validé	1 septembre 2006
ISBN13	9781598183771
Éditeurs	Aegypan
Pages	120
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 11 mm · 317 g
Langue et grammaire	English

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