The Custom Of The Country

Author: Edith Wharton; Cynthia Griffin Wolff

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  • : $55.00 NZD
  • : 9780684825885
  • : Scribner
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  • : 01 August 1997
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  • : Edith Wharton; Cynthia Griffin Wolff
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780684825885
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Description

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, but each conquest is merely a stepping-stone in Undine's quest for power and position--and in her elusive search for happiness.


 


A biting satire from one of America's greatest writers, The Custom of the Country features a compelling and driven antiheroine, a sharp-eyed critique of the marriage market and its objectification of women, and a knowing send-up of Gilded Age snobbery.