Products specifications
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Author
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Edith Wharton |
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Pub Date
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06/07/2023 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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400 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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813.52 |
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GBPPrice
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15.99 |
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Availability
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Available |
Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, with a foreword by
Sofia Coppola
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 journey of Undine Spragg from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of the America's interior and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through the intricate plot of Undine's marriages and affairs, Wharton conveys a vision of a social class that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted.
