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(4) | 25 | A free-spirited young American attempts to extricate herself from a failed marriage to an aristocratic Frenchman in Edith Wharton's entertaining novella. "Madame de Treymes," written in 1907, offers a concise perspective on the differences between American and French society from the vantage point of a master storyteller who is also an astute observer of European manners and customs. This compilation of Wharton's short fiction features three additional stories. "Autres Temps ..." tells of a woman who fled New York society after the scandalous dissolution of her marriage but is compelled to return upon the occasion of her daughter's divorce and hasty remarriage. "The Long Run" centers on a businessman's failure to accept an offer of love that's accompanied by the risk of social stigma. In "The Triumph of Night," a psychological thriller, a greedy uncle tries to appropriate a young relative's inheritance. These thought-provoking stories reflect their author's characteristic interest in the innate hypocrisy of society, generational conflicts, and challenges to moral courage.… (more) |
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Professor Joslin, who, as our readers are doubtless aware, is engaged in writing the life of Mrs. Aubyn, asks us to state that he will be greatly indebted to any of the famous novelist's friends who will furnish him with information concerning the period previous to her coming to England. (The Touchstone)  It is not often that youth allows itself to feel undividedly happy: the sensation is too much the result of selection and elimination to be within reach of the awakening clutch on life. (Sanctuary) John Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue di Rivoli at the afternoon brightness of the Tuileries gardens. (Madame de Treymes) In the days when New York's traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show-window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine population of the quarter bordering on Stuyvesant Square. (Bunner Sisters) The four long stories or short novels contained in this volume were not originally published together, and were written over a span of eighteen years. (Introduction) | |
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"I'm an abysmally weak fool, you know," he ended; "I'm not worth the fight you've put up for me. But I want you to know that it's your doing - that if you had let go an instant I should have gone under - and that if I'd gone under I should never have come up again alive." (Sanctuary) (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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This work contains four novellas:
Madame de Treymes
The Touchstone
Sanctuary
Bunner Sisters
even though only Madame de Treymes may appear on the cover.
Please do not combine this with the Penguin 60s edition, which is a much smaller work containing only a single novella. | |
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None ▾Book descriptions A free-spirited young American attempts to extricate herself from a failed marriage to an aristocratic Frenchman in Edith Wharton's entertaining novella. "Madame de Treymes," written in 1907, offers a concise perspective on the differences between American and French society from the vantage point of a master storyteller who is also an astute observer of European manners and customs. This compilation of Wharton's short fiction features three additional stories. "Autres Temps ..." tells of a woman who fled New York society after the scandalous dissolution of her marriage but is compelled to return upon the occasion of her daughter's divorce and hasty remarriage. "The Long Run" centers on a businessman's failure to accept an offer of love that's accompanied by the risk of social stigma. In "The Triumph of Night," a psychological thriller, a greedy uncle tries to appropriate a young relative's inheritance. These thought-provoking stories reflect their author's characteristic interest in the innate hypocrisy of society, generational conflicts, and challenges to moral courage. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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This book contains four novellas by Edith Wharton: The Touchstone, Sanctuary, Madame de Treymes, and The Bunner Sisters | |
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Chris_V | Jun 8, 2009 | 
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I am sure the prose is as polished and brittle as any other Wharton but it will have to wait for a re-read... if it gets that lucky! (