by Edith Wharton · Ediciones Invisibles · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412983722
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In 1900s Paris, a New York gentleman arrives in the city with the intention of proposing marriage to his childhood friend, Fanny Frisbee. However, Fanny is separated but not divorced from a Marquis who refuses to grant her a divorce. To overcome this obstacle, the gentleman seeks the help of Madame de Treymes, Fanny's sister-in-law, triggering a series of events in the hypocritical French aristocracy. This short novel explores themes of love, relationships, and the social conventions of the time.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
