The Custom of the Country
Wharton, Edith
ISBN 10: 1857151984 ISBN 13: 9781857151985
Published by Everyman's Library, London, 1994
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First included in Everyman's Library, 1994, stated; Everyman's Library number 198. Bound in dark blue cloth-covered boards with a bound-in blue ribbon bookmark. The book is square and unmarked; corners and spine ends unbumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price UK 9.99 pounds); Brodart protected. Seller Inventory # 016245
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.
About the Author:
Edith Wharton was born in New York City on January 24, 1862. Edith married Teddy Wharton, who was 12 years older. They lived a life of relative ease with homes in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Edith became a prolific writer and produced over 40 books in 40 years.
Edith divorced Teddy in 1912, having no immediate heirs, and never married again. She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and a full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novels became so popular that Ms. Wharton was able to live comfortably on her earnings the rest of her life. Edith continued to write until a stroke took her life in August 1937.
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Title: The Custom of the Country
Publisher: Everyman's Library, London
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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