The custom of the country / Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Contributor:

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Upper class.

Divorced women.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Manners and customs.

New York (State)--New York.

Divorced women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Upper class--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Satire.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

509 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Scribner paperback Fiction edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1997.

Summary:

First published in 1913 and regarded by many critics as her most substantial novel, "The Custom of the Country" is Edith Wharton's powerful saga about the beautiful, ruthless Undine Spragg. A woman of extraordinary ambition and exuberant vitality, Undine is consigned by virtue of her sex to the shadow world of the drawing room and boudoir. Marriage remains the one institution through which she can exercise her will as she entrances man after man, marrying one after the other with protean facility and almost monstrous avidity. A novel that ranges from New York to Paris, from Apex City, Kansas, to Reno, Nevada, "The Custom of the Country" stands as a dark satire of American business, society, and the nouveaux riches, and as Edith Wharton's contribution to the tradition of the American epic.

ISBN:

0684825880

9780684825885

OCLC:

37488169