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Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America's nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves from America's heartland to Manhattan, and then to Paris, Wharton's critical eye leaves no social class unscathed.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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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
New York (N.Y.), Paris (France), France, New York, New York (State)Showing 11 featured editions. View all 61 editions?
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The Custom of the Country
2007, Random House Publishing Group
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The custom of the country
1998, Doubleday
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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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