Madame de Treymes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512192124)

John Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue de Rivoli at the afternoon brightness of the Tuileries gardens. His European visits were infrequent enough to have kept unimpaired the freshness of his eye, and he was always struck anew by the vast and consummately ordered spectacle of Paris: by its look of having been boldly and deliberately planned as a background for the enjoyment of life, instead of being forced into grudging concessions to the festive instincts, or barricading itself against them in unenlightened ugliness, like his own lamentable New York.

Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN-10: 1512192120
ISBN-13: 9781512192124
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2015
Pages: 36
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d