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The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel by Jane Stanton Hitchcock; adapted from the novel by Edith Wharton is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel about?
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Wharton was re-creating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War Ameria, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics. - Back cover.
Who reads The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Jane Stanton Hitchcock; adapted from the novel by Edith Wharton
- Publisher
- Applause Theatre Book Publishers
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781557832870
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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