The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics)

Wharton, Edith; Wagner-Martin, Linda; Wagner-Martin, Linda

ISBN 10: 0143039709 / ISBN 13: 9780143039709

Edité par Penguin Classics (edition First Edition), 2006

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It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics)
• Éditeur: Penguin Classics (edition First Edition)
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0143039709
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780143039709
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

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.