The Custom Of The Country (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Wharton, Edith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857151984 ISBN 13: 9781857151985

Publisher: Everyman, 1994

Synopsis

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is probably Edith Wharton's most savage satire on the manners of late nineteenth-century America. It is the story of the exquisitely beautiful but brutally ambitious Undine Spragg who marries her way into the high aristocracy of Europe, abandoning several husbands along the way. This novel, which has scences of comedy and even farce, is a commentary on both certain aspects of feminisim and certain aspects of capitalism in Edith Wharton's time. The novel makes a fitting companion to THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE HOUSE OF MIRTH and shows Wharton to be one of the greatest American novelists.

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"Edith Wharton's finest achievement."
--Elizabeth Hardwick

"Edith Wharton's finest achievement."
--Elizabeth Hardwick

About the Author:

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), American novelist and short-story writer, was born in New York City. Strongly influenced by Henry James, she is best known for her subtle and su-perbly crafted studies of the tragedies and ironies in the lives of members of middle-class and artistocratic New York soci-ety in the the nineteenth century. She was educated in New York and Europe, and married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker, in 1885. When her husband became mentally ill, she cared for him until 1913, when she settled permanently in France and divorced him. Among her best and most characteristic works are The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she received a Pultizer prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1857151984
• ISBN 13: 9781857151985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 414