1994, ISBN: 0553213938

[EAN: 9780553213935], Neubuch, [PU: Random House USA Inc, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. First published in 1913, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country is a scathi… Meer...

[EAN: 9780553213935], Neubuch, [PU: Random House USA Inc, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. First published in 1913, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York's high society from the nouveau riche provides a provocative commentary on the upwardly mobile and the aspirations that eventually cause their ruin. One of Wharton's most acclaimed works, The Custom of the Country is a stunning indictment of materialism and misplaced values that is as powerful today for its astute observations about greed and power as when it was written nearly a century ago., Books<

ISBN: 9780553213935

Paperback, [PU: Random House USA Inc], The classic satire of New York society and the American Dream through the misadventures of an insatiable young striver Ambitious and wholehearted… Meer...

Paperback, [PU: Random House USA Inc], 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., Contemporary Fiction<