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100 1 $aWharton, Edith,$d1862-1937.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79151500
245 14 $aThe custom of the country /$cEdith Wharton ; with an introduction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff.
250 $a1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner Paperback Fiction,$c1997.
300 $a509 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aFirst published in 1913 and regarded by many critics as her most substantial novel, The Custom of the Country is Edith Wharton's powerful saga about the beautiful, ruthless Undine Spragg. A woman of extraordinary ambition and exuberant vitality, Undine is consigned by virtue of her sex to the shadow world of the drawing room and boudoir.
520 8 $aMarriage remains the one institution through which she can exercise her will as she entrances man after man, marrying one after the other with protean facility and almost monstrous avidity. A novel that ranges from New York to Paris, from Apex City, Kansas, to Reno, Nevada, The Custom of the Country stands as a dark satire of American business, society, and the nouveaux riches, and as Edith Wharton's contribution to the tradition of the American epic.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116335
650 0 $aDivorced women$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction.
650 0 $aUpper class$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction.
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
655 7 $aSatire.$2gsafd
700 1 $aWolff, Cynthia Griffin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076469
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