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The Custom of the Country: New York Public Library Collector's Edition: Used
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1998-10-20
- Pages
- 439
- ISBN
- 9780385487238
- Book Title
- Custom of the Country
- Book Series
- New York Public Library Collector's Edition Ser.
- Publisher
- Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Item Length
- 7.2 in
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Features
- Collector's Edition
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Humorous / General
- Item Weight
- 21 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385487231
ISBN-13
9780385487238
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46093
Product Key Features
Book Title
Custom of the Country
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Humorous / General
Publication Year
1998
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Collector's Edition
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
New York Public Library Collector's Edition Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Item Length
7.2 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-006198
Dewey Edition
20
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Edition Description
Collector's
Synopsis
With the publication of this controversial novel, Edith Wharton leveled her most biting critique at the limitations that her society placed upon the ambitious woman. The Custom of the Country--which Harold Bloom, among others, considers her strongest achievement--takes its name from Fletcher and Massinger's Jacobean play about a medieval custom in which the feudal lord had a right to use the body of any common woman in his domain, either for his own pleasure or for money by prostituting her on her wedding night. In Wharton's American revision, it is the woman herself who ruthlessly sells herself to whatever man she believes can provide her with the success she desires. Undine Spragg is a magnificent antiheroine, viciously and precisely rendered by the author. With photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn and drawings by Charles Dana Gibson, this Collector's Edition evokes the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New York. It also brings us closer to the author herself, with letters in her hand and other archival traces of her life from the special collections of The New York Public Library., First published in 1913 and regarded by many critics as her most substantial novel, "The Custom of the Country" is Edith Wharton's powerful saga about the beautiful, ruthless Undine Spragg. A woman of extraordinary ambition and exuberant vitality, Undine is consigned by virtue of her sex to the shadow world of the drawing room and boudoir. Marriage remains the one institution through which she can exercise her will as she entrances man after man, marrying one after the other with protean facility and almost monstrous avidity. A novel that ranges from New York to Paris, from Apex City, Kansas, to Reno, Nevada, "The Custom of the Country" stands as a dark satire of American business, society, and the nouveaux riches, and as Edith Wharton's contribution to the tradition of the American epic.
LC Classification Number
PS3545.H16C8 1998
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