Titles starting with M from Josephine DiBenedetto

Flaubert's portrait of an adulteress who seeks freedom from a prosaic, disappointing life and ultimately is destroyed by her selfishness was considered scandalous when it was published. Flaubert chose his subject to illustrate his belief that any aspect of life, however trivial or vulgar, could be a subject for literature, and could be raised to the status of art by the quality of the writing.

Wharton's first work after THE HOUSE OF MIRTH was MADAME DE TREYMES, a portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. It tells the story of a transplanted New Yorker, Fanny Frisbee, who is unhappily married to a marquis, and of her American lover who comes to Paris to take her away. This volume also includes THE TOUCHSTONE, SANCTUARY, and THE BUNNER SISTERS.