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Wharton Edith - The Custom Of The Country - Paperback
Wharton Edith - The Custom Of The Country - Paperback
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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.
Title: The Custom Of The Country
Author(s): Wharton Edith
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143039709
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 5/30/2006
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
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.
Title: The Custom Of The Country
Author(s): Wharton Edith
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143039709
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 5/30/2006
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
