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Title: THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
By: Edith Wharton, Anita Brookner
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0143039709
ISBN 13: 9780143039709
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 30 May, 2006
Pages: 352
Description: Presents a tale about a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. 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.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
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