The Custom of the Country - (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Verlag | Penguin Random House |
Auflage | 2022 |
Seiten | 432 |
Format | 14,2 x 21,3 x 2,8 cm |
Gewicht | 466 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition |
EAN | 9780143137214 |
Bestell-Nr | 14313721EA |
Wharton s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola
A Penguin Classics Deluxe 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.