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The Custom of the Country
(Paperback, 1994)
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Author: Edith Wharton
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY marks Edith Wharton's return to the satiric tone of THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. Sh...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0553213938
ISBN-13: 9780553213935
Jul 1994
Publisher: Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY marks Edith Wharton's return to the satiric tone of THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. She follows bored, passive Ralph Marvell, a gentle young man with the heart of a poet, as he squanders his family's modest inheritance in an attempt to find happiness. But the real star of Wharton's narrative is the beautiful, ambitious, and blatantly amoral schemer, Undine Spragg, who manipulates her nouveau-riche Midwestern parents into taking her East. There she rampages through New York society in search of a wealthy husband--who turns out, disastrously, to be Ralph Marvell. Wharton savages the vulgar Spraggs, who live only for money and what it can bring, while appreciating the culture and traditional values of the old guard. But her satiric eye spares no one: with the genteel Marvell family, Wharton illustrates how completely a corrupt society can affect individual characters no matter how they try to resist. Considered one of Edith Wharton's greatest novels, THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is also notable for the author's understanding of the power of the media--of gossip and sensationalism--even in the 1870s.
| Size | | Height: | 6.5 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: ""Undine Spragg--how CAN you?" her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid "bell-boy" had just brought in."
Industry Reviews
"...as a work of satire it is powerful... Mrs. Wharton is a good hater..."
Bookman - William Lyon Phelps
"... a return to the rich, sure ground of New York and the novel of manners, only this time the central character in the conflict of social groups is not a victim but an invader... The story of how she hews her way through the old New York ranks is vivid and fascinating."
Louis Auchincloss
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Other Editions
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Paperback, 1995 - $1.50 Save 84%
Paperback, 1990 - $0.75 Save 93%
Hardcover, 1998 - $0.75 Save 95%
Hardcover, 1976 - $3.00 Save 94%
Paperback, 1997 - $0.75 Save 95%
Hardcover, 1994 - $7.49 Save 58%
Paperback, 1998 - $79.93
Paperback, 1985 - $0.75 Save 94%
Paperback, 1987 - $0.75 Save 90%
Paperback, 1989 - $0.75 Save 84%
Paperback, 1981 - $0.75 Save 78%
Paperback, 2001 - $0.75 Save 94%
Audio, 1995 - $41.97 Save 40%
Paperback, 2001 - $1.35 Save 89%
Audio, 2003 - $94.60
Paperback, 2004 - $21.38 Save 33%
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