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Chargement... New York Novels (Modern Library) (édition 1998)par Edith Wharton (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe House of Mirth; The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocence par Edith Wharton
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Only read Custom of the country. Subtitle should be: How to be a golddigger! Undine Spragg is one of the most venal, covetous, grasping, selfish protagonists I've run across. Very good picture of the nouveaux riches of that time period. Elegant writing. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Edith Wharton made the world of Old New York her own, the wealthy high society so powerfully depicted in these three elegantly ironic novels." "Revolving around the marriage question, they explore the dilemma of women and men held within the rigid bounds of social convention. Thus in The House of Mirth, the novel that first brought Edith Wharton to fame, the complex, poignant heroine Lily Bart must either break away and find a more meaningful existence, or become a part of the superficial values of the nouveaux riches; in The Custom of the Country, the energetic and ambitious Undine Spragg works her way to wealth anti power through a succession of marriages; while Newland Archer in The Age of Innocence is caught in an agony of indecision: whether he should choose the duty of a socially approved marriage, or the love of a woman frowned upon by 'decent' society."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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