Madame de Treymes
انتشارات : amazon – Penguin
زبان کتاب : انگلیسی
تعداد صفحه کتاب : ۹۰
قطع کتاب : جیبی – سال انتشار کتاب : ۱۹۹۵
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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