The complete online text of Madame De Treymes by Edith Wharton.

Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan. 24, 1861. Like many other biographical facts, she k...

While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particularly during the Jazz Age and the Depression, a counterva...

Perhaps the most striking thing about Edith Wharton 's reputation as a novelist is the fact that she has been "reclaimed" so many times. This fact seems all the more remarkable when one reflects that before her death in 1937, her novels and short stories...

There are only two powers in the world-the sword and the spirit... In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit. -Napoleon to Fontanes There are only two distinct classes of men on earth: those who feel enthusiasm and...

Did Madame de Pompadour lose the French Empire? In 1756, King Louis XV's notorious mistress helped spark the disastrous conflict that led to its demise by championing France's break with Protestant England and Prussia in favor of the Roman Catholic countries. During the...