The Custom of the Country

ISBN: 9780143039709

出版社: Penguin Classics

出版年: May 30, 2006

页数: 368

定价: $13.00

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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.

作者简介

Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.

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