The Custom of the Country

出版者:Random House Inc

作者:Wharton, Edith

页数:0

出版时间:1994-10

价格:158.00元

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780679423010

图书标签:女性edithwharton

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves from America’s heartland to Manhattan, and then to Paris, Wharton’s critical eye leaves no social class unscathed.