| The Custom of the Country Contributor(s): Edibooks (Editor), Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1535413131 ISBN-13: 9781535413138 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $14.01 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.14 lbs) 388 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the fictional city of Apex who have made money through somewhat shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their beautiful, ambitious, but socially-naive daughter, Undine. She marries Ralph Marvell, a member of an old New York family that no longer enjoys significant wealth. Before her wedding, Undine encounters an acquaintance from Apex named Elmer Moffatt, a character with "a genuine disdain for religious piety and social cant", as the scholar Elaine Showalter observes. Undine begs him not to do anything that will endanger her wedding to Ralph. Elmer agrees. |