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

Medie	Bøger Hardcover bog (Bog med hård ryg og stift omslag)
Udgivet	1. september 2006
ISBN13	9781598183771
Forlag	Aegypan
Antal sider	120
Mål	152 × 229 × 11 mm · 317 g
Sprog	Engelsk

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