Edith Wharton: The Custom of the Country

Cover: 9780307949547 | The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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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.

Über den Autor

Edith Wharton exposed the glittering surface of high society and the quiet struggles beneath it. Born in 1862 into New York's elite, she understood its customs, pressures, and unspoken rules from within. A sharp awareness of social constraint shaped her philosophy, often revealing how tradition can both guide and confine individual lives.Refined prose and psychological insight define the core of her writing. In works such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, she explored love, duty, and the cost of conformity. Careful storytelling reveals how desire and expectation collide within rigid social structures.Lasting influence has secured her place among the great American novelists. Recognition came with a Pulitzer Prize, marking her as a leading voice in literary realism. Today, her work remains widely read, valued for its elegance, depth, and enduring critique of society.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780307949547
ISBN-10:	0307949540
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wharton, Edith
Hersteller:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 132 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Edith Wharton
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.06.2012
Gewicht:	0,481 kg