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Edith wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th century new york society, who spent much of her life in france. The custom of the country by edith wharton full audiobooks. This is a study of ruthless social ambition, material greed, and selfindulgence which seems almost to presage the bitchy antiheroines of contemporary television soap operas. Edith wharton 1862 1937edith whartons 19 novel is a devastating critique of american upward mobility, told through the journey of undine spragg from f. Popple, in fact, held that the personality of the artist should at all times be dissembled behind that of the man. Edith whartons satiric anatomy of american society in the first decade of the.
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