The Custom of the Country (Modern Library Torchbearers) (Torchbearers) (New York Public Library collector's edition)

by Edith Wharton

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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 to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel', but concluded that the book was 'brilliantly written', and 'should be read as a parable'. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and...Read more
  • ISBN10 3732652017
  • ISBN13 9783732652013
  • Publish Date 5 April 2018 (first published 1 January 1965)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Outlook Verlag
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 318
  • Language English