THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
por WHARTON, Edith
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Bookplate stamped "Discarded" with slight offsetting to the endpaper; perforated stamp to bottom margin of one text page; slight
- Livreiro
-
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sinopse
Wharton's glittering satire of the newly affluent in Old New YorkConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior decor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate and satisfying plot that follows Undine's marriages and affairs, she conveys a vision of social behavior that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted.*This new edition features a new introduction and explanatory notes and reset text
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- Livreiro
- Charles Agvent (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 020667
- Título
- THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
- Autor
- WHARTON, Edith
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Bookplate stamped "Discarded" with slight offsetting to the endpaper; perforated stamp to bottom margin of one text page; slight
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1913
- Palavras-chave
- Signed, Association Copy, Modern Firsts, Inscribed, Women's Literature, 19th Century Literature, Literature: American, Women's Literature, Modern First Editions
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Association Copy;
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