Product Description

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 on convincing Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead.

A subtle investigation of the clash of cultures and the role of women in the social hierarchy, Madame de Treymes confirms Edith Wharton's position, as Edmund Wilson wrote, as "an historian of the American society of her time."

This Scribner edition of Madame de Treymes also includes three novellas: The Touchstone, Sanctuary, and Bunner Sisters. These short works are rich in the social satire and cunning insight that characterized Wharton's highly acclaimed novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #804515 in Books
• Published on: 1995-12-18
• Released on: 1995-12-18
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .89" h x 5.34" w x 7.95" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
Gore Vidal There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as "major" -- and Edith Wharton is one.

Ingram
The author's first publication after her classic novel, The House of Mirth, tells the romantic story of two Americans, childhood friends, who venture into French high society at the turn of the century. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

About the Author
Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, for The Age of Innocence. Born in 1862 into one of New York's older and richer families, she was educated here and abroad. Her works include Ethan Frome, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The Glimpses of the Moon, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. As a keen observer and chronicler of society, she is without peer. Edith Wharton died in France in 1937.