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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic | Series: Bantam Classics
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is possible t ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Vitae Edition Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of th ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 marrie ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton; Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Category: Fiction
The classic satire of New York society and the American Dream through the misadventures of an insatiable young striver Ambitious and wholeheartedly materialistic, Undine Spragg is a beautiful heiress who sees men as a means to an end. New York millionaires and French aristocrats fall at her feet, bu ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords u ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had "assembled as many detestable people as it is possible t ...Show more
The Custom of the Country: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination ...Show more
The Custom of the Country and Other Classic Novels by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic | Series: Fall River Classics
This book is a bindup of three novels by Edith Wharton: "The Custom of the Country", "The House of Mirth", and "The Age of Innocence". It is part of the Fall River Classics line of jacketed hardbacks, being brought out to coincide with an 8-part mini-series adaptation of the title novel featuring Scarle ...Show more
The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton; Ogden Codman Jr.
Category: Interior Design | Series: Classical America in Art and Architecture Ser.
Individuality in house-furnishing has seldom been more harped upon than at the present time. The cheap originality which finds expression in putting things to uses for which they were not intended is often confounded with individuality; whereas the latter consists not in an attempt to be different from ...Show more
The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton
Category: Fiction
Originally published in 1907, this little-known novel by Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the author of "The Age of Innocence" and "Ethan Frome", was considered controversial for its frank treatment of such issues as labour and industrial condition, drug addiction, mercy killing, desire, and divorce and secon ...Show more