Madame de Treymes |
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Author:
| Wharton, Edith |
ISBN: | 978-1-4912-9996-8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $5.99 |
Book Description:
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An excerpt from a review by
Revue des Deux Mondes: "The author's fellow-countrymen can feel [after reading "Madame de Treymes"] that Mrs. Wharton has only one object, to flay the degeneracy of the upper classes in every country of the world. She can write nothing which is not unusual and distinguished, but here, besides delightful descriptions of Paris and keen comparisons of national characteristics, there are also unexpected disclosures. We see, among other...
More DescriptionAn excerpt from a review by Revue des Deux Mondes:
"The author's fellow-countrymen can feel [after reading "Madame de Treymes"] that Mrs. Wharton has only one object, to flay the degeneracy of the upper classes in every country of the world. She can write nothing which is not unusual and distinguished, but here, besides delightful descriptions of Paris and keen comparisons of national characteristics, there are also unexpected disclosures. We see, among other things, how the Americans are exploited among us not only by tradespeople, but by duchesses, who invite them to all their charity sales and yet for all that never open the doors of their salons to them.
"Mrs. Wharton shows that she is as entirely familiar with the habit of mind and point of view of the French aristocracy as of people in her own country. No more striking story of certain social conditions and sentiments as they exist to-day in France has been written by a foreigner and the side-lights which this splendid story throws on the questions of international marriages are of the most illuminating kind."