Madame de Treymes
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780020554202
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
1987
Publisher
Pages
392
Abstract
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.
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.
Number of Copies
1
