A novella of Wharton's works depicting Americans living in France, and tells of Fanny de Malrive, nee Frisbee, a once free-spirited New Yorker now married to a French marquis, trapped within an unhappy marriage.
Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.