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Penguin Classics
November 2022
On Sale: November 15, 2022
432 pages ISBN: 0143137204 EAN: 9780143137207 Kindle: B008495XZQ Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Contemporary | Fiction Classics
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior décor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate and satisfying plot that follows Undine’s marriages and affairs, she conveys a vision of social behavior that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted.
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