The Chateau

Front Cover
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1961 - Fiction - 401 pages
"It is 1948, and a battered France is just beginning to receive its first American tourists since the war... although Harold and Barbara Rhodes are enchanted by the small perfections that greet them at the Château Beaumesnil and tolerant of the lack of such amenities as sugar and hot water, there is much that bewilders them. Is their hostess, the gallant Mme Viénot, flirting with Harold? Will they ever win the approval of the impeccably connected M. Carrère and his forbidding wife? Can American eagerness and goodwill ever decipher the ancient codes of French civility?"--Publisher description.

From inside the book

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
33
Section 3
45
Copyright

18 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

References to this book

About the author (1961)

William Maxwell was born in 1908 in Lincoln, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and after earning a master's at Harvard, returned there to teach freshman composition before turning to writing. He published six novels, three collections of short fiction, an autobiographical memoir, a collection of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For 40 years, he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow, the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.

Bibliographic information