The Custom of the Country

Zusatztext 'Wharton captures with masterly ease the world of post-Civil War America in this brilliantly-written and highly-entertaining novel.'Charles Osborne! Sunday Telegraph Informationen zum Autor Stephen Orgel is Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. Klappentext Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, as she pursues her schemes and social ambitions in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Zusammenfassung Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, as she pursues her schemes and social ambitions in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion.

Product details

• Authors: Edith Wharton
• Assisted by: Stephen Orgel (Editor), Stephen (Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities Orgel (Editor), Orgel Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2008
• EAN: 9780199555123
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955512-3
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary