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The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by the American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.
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- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
- The Custom of the Country
- English
The Custom of the Country, a novel about a woman who gets divorced four times, was published in the same year that Edith Wharton divorced her own husband.
Kindle $1.99. Rate this book. The Custom of the Country. Edith Wharton, Linda Wagner-Martin (Editor) 4.06. 14,130 ratings1,631 reviews. Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's epic work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class.
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20 de ene. de 2021 · “ The Custom of the Country ” (1913), like much that Edith Wharton wrote, can be described as a novel of manners. That’s to say, a social fiction in which the carefully observed...
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The Custom of the Country, a novel of manners by Edith Wharton, published in 1913. The Custom of the Country is the story of Undine Spragg, a young woman with social aspirations who convinces her nouveau riche parents to leave the Midwest and settle in New York. There she captures and marries a young man from New York’s high society.
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. by EDITH WHARTON. 1913. THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY I "Undine Spragg—how can you?" her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid "bell-boy" had just brought in.
