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The Custom of the Country
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Custom of the Country
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Edith Wharton
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Introduction by Anita Brookner
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:352 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780143039709
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.52 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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| Imprint |
Penguin Classics
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| Publication Date |
28 September 2006 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
Author Biography
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.
Reviews"Edith Wharton's finest achievement." --Elizabeth Hardwick
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