Custom of the Country, The(Penguin Classics)|报价￥108.80|图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction 文学/小说,Classics 名著,Edith Wharton

品牌：Edith Wharton

基本信息

·出版社：Penguin Classics

·页码：368 页码

·出版日：2006年

·ISBN：0143039709

·条码：9780143039709

·装帧：平装

·丛书名：Penguin Classics

内容简介

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Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel', but concluded that the book was 'brilliantly written', and 'should be read as a parable'.It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by dissullusion.Wharton was recreating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.

作者简介

Edith Wharton(1862–1937) published poetry and short stories in magazines and in volume form before her novelThe House of Mirthbecame a bestseller and established her as a writer of both distinction and popular appeal. Her other novels includeEthan FromeandThe Age of Innocence, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.Linda Wagner-Martinis Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the editor ofThe Portable Edith Wharton.

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Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. Although the worlds she wants to conquer have vanished, Undine herself is amazingly recognizable. She marries well above herself twice and both times fails to recognize her husbands' strengths of character or the weakness of her own, and it is they, not she, who pay the price. Barbara Caruso can't make Undine sympathetic; no one could. But she makes her believable, quite miracle enough, and renders Undine's slash-and-burn progress toward what she thinks will make her happy utterly absorbing. B.G. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine--Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Jack Goodstein, Allreaders.com

Wharton creates a story of a beautiful young woman--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.

Review

"Edith Wharton's finest achievement."

--Elizabeth Hardwick

From the Trade Paperback edition.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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