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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Custom Of The Country
• Author: Edith Wharton
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 414
• EAN: 9781857151985
• ISBN: 1857151984
• ID: 04302244
• Publisher: Everyman
• Weight: 548 g
• Dimensions: 164 × 212 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. July 1994

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