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Title: |
The Custom of the Country |
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| By (author): |
Edith Wharton Edited by: Sarah Emsley |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551116731 : 9781551116730 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
486 |
| Weight: |
.630 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - September 2008 |
| List Price: |
20.25 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
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| Ruthless and predatory, Edith Whartonâ s seductive young heroine Undine Spragg exploits a series of husbands from the American west to New York and France in her search for one with the ideal combination of social power, money, and material possessionsâ something â more luxurious, more exciting, more worthy of her!â Whartonâ s criticism of the leisure-class marriage market becomes a brilliant satire on the nature of desire, as the novel links marriage and divorce with selfish ambition and the culture of consumerism. This Broadview edition provides a critical introduction and appendices that include Whartonâ s outline for and correspondence about The Custom of the Country, excerpts from Friedrich de la Motte Fouquéâ s novella Undine, and passages from works by Charles Darwin, Emma Goldman, Henry James, and Thorstein Veblen, among others. |
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