The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics)

Wharton, Edith

ISBN 10: 0143039709 / ISBN 13: 9780143039709

Editore: Penguin Classics, 2006

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Riassunto:

Romanzi di costume di Edith Wharton sembrano crescere in statura con il passare del tempo. Qui disegna una bellissima arrampicatrice sociale, Undine Sprague, che è un mostro di egoismo e onestamente non lo sa. Sebbene i mondi che vuole conquistare siano scomparsi, Undine stessa è incredibilmente riconoscibile. Si sposa ben al di sopra di se stessa due volte ed entrambe le volte non riesce a riconoscere i punti di forza del carattere dei suoi mariti o la debolezza del suo, e sono loro, non lei, a pagarne il prezzo.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, a historical romance called The Valley of Decision, in 1902. The book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth, published in 1905. She died in 1937.

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the editor of The Portable Edith Wharton.

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Titolo: The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics)
Casa editrice: Penguin Classics
Data di pubblicazione: 2006
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Good