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The custom of the country by Edith Wharton

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The custom of the country (original 1913; edition 1994)

by Edith Wharton

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The Custom of the Country

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Raymond de Chelles

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New York, New York, USA

Paris, Île-de-France, France

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"Undine Spragg – how can you?’ her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid ‘bell-boy’ had just brought in.

Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country (1913), takes its title from a Jacobean play by Fletcher and Massinger about the buying and selling of women's bodies, but the country whose customs she mercilessly satirizes in the novel is her native America. (Introduction)

Quotations

"Just so; she'd even feel aggrieved. But why? Because
it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault
is that? The man's again—I don't mean Ralph I mean
the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, Americanus.
Why haven't we taught our women to take an interest
in our work? Simply because we don't take enough
interest in THEM."

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Fiction and Literature

General Fiction

Melvil Decimal System (DDC)

813.52Literature › American literature in English › American fiction in English › 1900-1999 › 1900-1945

LC Classification

PS3545.H16Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Individual authors › 1900-1960

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