The Custom of the Country
(Paperback)
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Published: 31st March 1999
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Published: 28th September 2006
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Publishing Details
The Custom of the Country
By (Author) Edith Wharton
Introduction by Anita Brookner
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
28th September 2006
28th September 2006
United Kingdom
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Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 25mm
323g
Description
Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. Although the worlds she wants to conquer have vanished, Undine herself is amazingly recognizable. She marries well above herself twice and both times fails to recognize her husbands' strengths of character or the weakness of her own, and it is they, not she, who pay the price.
Reviews
"Edith Wharton's finest achievement."
--Elizabeth Hardwick
Author Bio
Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist. Her best known work, The Age of Innocence, won her a Pulitzer Prize and was written in 1920.
