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The Custom of the Country: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Edith Wharton
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
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- Titel
- The Custom of the Country: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Edith Wharton
- Verlag
- PENGUIN GROUP
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0143137212
- ISBN13
- 9780143137214
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Klassiker, Amerikanische Literatur, 20. Jahrhundert
- Bewertung
- 4,3 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Wharton’s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Vitae Edition 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 décor 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.