The Marne

By Edith Wharton

During World War I, teenager Troy Belknap enlists in order to defend France, the country he loves. Wharton takes the reader on a dizzying journey down the line between Troy’s rose-coloured, heroic ambitions, the grim realities of the war, and the often hollow and ugly attitudes of Americans at home.
 
Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Oct 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9780735252516

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.

Reviews for The Marne

[jeffome · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A quick little read by one of my very favorite authors.....the story of a wealthy young American man fortunate enough to summer in France as a child who develops a love for the country, one strong enough to make him yearn to help in the war effort of WWI to save France from the German onslaught, although his age prohibits him from being a soldier. As quite often is the case with Wharton, there is much subtle criticism of the vapid hypocrisy of American wealthy socialites as they also express their somewhat shallow desires to be helpful, but for all the wrong reasons. This certainly shares Wharton's growing disdain that led her to spend her final years as an expatriate living in France. I also learned a little bit about America's initial involvement in WWI. I love Wharton, and i am slowly running out of her works that i have not read yet....i will be slowly spreading those remaining out over time!