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
- ISBN10 0146000153
- ISBN13 9780146000157
- Publish Date 6 July 1995 (first published 14 June 1984)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 13 March 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English