The custom of the country / Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by Lorna Sage.
Series: Everyman's library ; 198 | Everyman's libraryPublication details: London : Everyman's Library, 1994.Description: xliii, 413 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780679423010
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Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 813 WHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000412072 |
"THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is probably Edith Wharton's most savage satire on the manners of late nineteenth-century America. It is the story of the exquisitely beautiful but brutally ambitious Undine Spragg who marries her way into the high aristocracy of Europe, abandoning several husbands along the way. This novel, which has scences of comedy and even farce, is a commentary on both certain aspects of feminisim and certain aspects of capitalism in Edith Wharton's time. The novel makes a fitting companion to THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE HOUSE OF MIRTH and shows Wharton to be one of the greatest American novelists." - Copac
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