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The Custom of the Country

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780143039709

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 196mm x 19mm x 143mm

  • Weight: 282g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Custom of the Country

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.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780143039709

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 196mm x 19mm x 143mm

  • Weight: 282g

  • RRP: £8.99

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on 24th January 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, The Valley of Decision, in 1902. Her most famous work, The House of Mirth, was published in 1905. She died in 1937.

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