The Custom of the Country

edith wharton

"Edith Wharton's finest achievement." -- Elizabeth Hardwick

The Custom of the Country may well be have been the lynchpin that made Edith Wharton's career become the phenomenon that comes so easily to memory across so many decades. Oh, it's of a cloth with all her work -- there's no mistaking that a page of her writing came from her and not someone else -- but on a certain level, this novel is a mean book, and the meanness is warranted.

Genres classicsfictionhistorical fictionamericanliteraturenovels20th centurynew yorkbook clubliterary fiction

312 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1913

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Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Published: September 1, 2006 by Alan Rodgers Books
ISBN: 9781598183696
ASIN: 1598183699
Language: English

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About the author

edith wharton

Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.