Madame de Treymes: Four Short Novels. Edith Wharton (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844083586 ISBN 13: 9781844083589

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (UK), 2006

Synopsis

Franny Frisbee is an unhappily married woman. Having left New York to live in Paris with the family of her husband, the Marquis of Malrive, she embarks on an adventure in Paris with her childhood friend John Durham, who wishes her to divorce her husband and marry him. Through Franny's crisis between her rights as a woman and what is best for her family, Edith Wharton explores the clashing cultures of Parisian and American life and the role of women at the turn of the century in this moving novel of love and scandal for an American woman abroad.

About this title

About the Author:

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 in New York, and later lived in Rhode Island and France. Her first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902, and by 1913 she was writing at least one book a year. During the First World War she was awarded the Cross of the Legion d'Honneur and the Order of Leopold. In 1920, The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize; she was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from Yale University and in 1930 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and letters. She died in 1937.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (UK)
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844083586
• ISBN 13: 9781844083589
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332