The Custom of the Country
The Custom of the Country
ISBN: 9780553213935
作者: Edith Wharton
出版社: Bantam Classics
出版年: 1991-05-01
页数: 480
定价: CAD 7.50
装帧: Mass Market Paperback
内容简介
First published in 1913, Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York’s high society from the nouveau riche provides a provocative commentary on the upwardly mobile and the aspirations that eventually cause their ruin. One of Wharton’s most acclaimed works, The Custom of the Country is a stunning indictment of materialism and misplaced values that is as powerful today for its astute observations about greed and power as when it was written nearly a century ago.