Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton's satirical anatomy of American society in the first decade of the 20th century, follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York and determined to conquer high society. Her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money.
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Fiction, Divorced women, Upper class, Remarried people, Americans, Social life and customs, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, humorous, Divorced people, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, family life, Fiction, humorous, generalPlaces
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The custom of the country
1998, Doubleday
in English
- 1st New York Public Library collector's ed.
0385487231 9780385487238
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"First published as a World's Classics paperback 1995. Reissued as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2000." - T.p. verso.
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Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Wharton was re-creating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War Ameria, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics. - Back cover.
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