WHARTON, Edith.
The Custom of the Country.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1913.
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“A BLINDING, RAW FORCE OF PRIMITIVE BEAUTY”: First Edition of Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
First edition of one of Wharton's finest novels, which tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. An exceptional presentation.
“In some ways her most successful work, in that it draws on all her strengths as a novelist, especially as satirist and social chronicler… Custom is filled with penetrating satire, acute observations of the new Gilded Age, forcefully drawn characters, and international settings charged with a new power and direction… Undine is a creature of glaring light, a blinding, raw force of primitive beauty” (Lowe, 391-92).
The Custom of the Country.
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