The Custom Of The Country

Edith Wharton, Lorna Sage

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English

Everyman Hardcovers
15 September 1994

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS

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.

By: Edith Wharton
Introduction by: Lorna Sage
Imprint: Everyman Hardcovers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781857151985
ISBN 10: 1857151984
Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 15 September 1994
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Custom Of The Country

Wharton's second country was France: she started living there in 1907, wrote a book about driving through the provinces (A Motor-Flight Through France), was given the legion d'honneur for her war-work, and was buried at Versailles in 1937. The Custom of the Country is her greatest novel of the Franco-American relationship, whose complexities are blundered into, overridden, understood and misunderstood by the impeccably named Undine Spragg. (Kirkus UK)