John Durham, a New Yorker visiting Paris, wants to marry Fanny de Malrive, an American who married into an old French family and now longs to be free. Everything depends on her worldly sister-in-law, Madame de Treymes, whose help comes at a price Durham only slowly understands.
A perfectly made novella of Americans and Europeans, in the vein of Henry James, for readers new to Wharton. Download the free EPUB.