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Madame de Treymes

by Edith Wharton · 1907

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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. .

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romanceromanceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1900s1900sMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 87 pages
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