The Custom Of The Country Novel By Edith Wharton

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307949547

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Edith Wharton’s lacerating satire on marriage and materialism in turn-of-the-century New York features her most selfish, ruthless, and irresistibly outrageous female character. Undine Spragg is an exquisitely beautiful but ferociously acquisitive young woman from the Midwest who comes to New York to seek her fortune. She achieves her social ambitions—but only at the highest cost to her family, her admirers, and her several husbands. Wharton lavished on Undine an imaginative energy that suggests she was as fascinated as she was appalled by the alluring monster she had created. It is the complexity of her attitude that makes The Custom of the Country—with its rich social and emotional detail and its headlong narrative power—one of the most fully realized and resonant of her works.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066052324

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The Custom of the Country (Romance Classic) by Edith Wharton Pdf

The Custom of the Country tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the city of Apex who have made money through somewhat shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their beautiful, ambitious, but socially-naive daughter, Undine. She marries Ralph Marvell, a would-be poet and member of an old New York family that has social status but no longer enjoys significant wealth. Before her wedding, Undine encounters an acquaintance from Apex named Elmer Moffatt. Undine, who had a relationship with Moffatt that might prove embarrassing to her, begs him not to do anything that will endanger her wedding to Ralph. Although Ralph dotes on Undine, his finances do not permit the extravagant lifestyle Undine desires, and Undine begins an affair with the nouveau riche Peter Van Degen, who is married to Ralph's cousin, Clare. She then divorces Ralph in the hope of marrying Peter, but this does not work out. As a divorcee, Undine loses her high position in society, and spends her next years living in North Dakota, New York, and Paris, scheming to scramble up the social ladder again.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542760577

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The Custom of the Country. Novel By. Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It is centered on Undine Spragg, a social upstart who goes up the social ladder through marriage and divorce and remarriage, many times anew. Wavering between the Romantic and the Realist canons, the novel nevertheless follows in the wake of the literary tradition of the money-novel. It was written by Edith Wharton at a time when she herself was going through a divorce. She had, however, started writing the novel as early as Spring 1908 when she had completed six chapters

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798718676501

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The Custom of the Country (Illustrated) by Edith Wharton Pdf

The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by American Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the fictional city of Apex who have made money through somewhat shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their beautiful, ambitious, but socially naive daughter, Undine. She marries Ralph Marvell, a would-be poet and member of an old New York family that has social status but no longer enjoys significant wealth. Before her wedding, Undine encounters an acquaintance from Apex named Elmer Moffatt, an ambitious and somewhat unpleasant character with "a genuine disdain for religious piety and social cant", as the scholar Elaine Showalter observes. Undine, who appears to have had a relationship with Moffatt that might prove embarrassing to her, begs him not to do anything that will endanger her wedding to Ralph. Elmer agrees.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798747041820

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The Custom of the Country (Annotated) by Edith Wharton Pdf

The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.

Author : Edith EDITH WHARTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798640375602

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The Custom of the Country by Edith EDITH WHARTON Pdf

EDITH WHARTON

Author : E Wharton
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0684719266

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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior d cor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate and satisfying plot that follows Undine's marriages and affairs, she conveys a vision of social behavior that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted. - Anita Brookner We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1720596778

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The Custom of the Country. by Edith Wharton Pdf

The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the fictional city of Apex who have made money through somewhat shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their beautiful, ambitious, but socially-naive daughter, Undine. She marries Ralph Marvell, a member of an old New York family that no longer enjoys significant wealth. Before her wedding, Undine encounters an acquaintance from Apex named Elmer Moffatt, a character with "a genuine disdain for religious piety and social cant", as the scholar Elaine Showalter observes. Undine begs him not to do anything that will endanger her wedding to Ralph. Elmer agrees.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0260226653

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The Custom of the Country (Classic Reprint) by Edith Wharton Pdf

Excerpt from The Custom of the Country But her defence was as feeble as her protest, and she continued to smile on her visitor while Miss Spragg, with a turn of her quick young fingers, possessed her self of the missive and withdrew to the window to read it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Laura Rattray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317316480

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Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country by Laura Rattray Pdf

Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de force, The Custom of the Country.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Custom of the Country (鄉土風俗) by Edith Wharton Pdf

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543299989

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The Custom of the Country (Classic Edition) by Edith Wharton Pdf

It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1975810120

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Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Pdf

Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this novel she tells the story of Undine Sprague, the thrice- (or more) married, upwardly mobile beauty from "Apex City", transplanted to New York, and finally to France, leaving the dead and wounded in the wake of her "experiments in happiness".

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : McLeod & Allen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Americans
ISBN : 1414291124

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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Pdf

Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America's nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves from America's heartland to Manhattan, and then to Paris, Wharton's critical eye leaves no social class unscathed. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

Author : Edith Wharton,Marion Mainwaring
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440621390

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The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton,Marion Mainwaring Pdf

Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society—soon to be an original series on AppleTV+! “Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.”—The New York Times Book Review Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful. After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.