Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. Although the worlds she wants to conquer have vanished, Undine herself is amazingly recognizable. She marries well above herself twice and both times fails to recognize her husbands' strengths of character or the weakness of her own, and it is they, not she, who pay the price.
| ISBN: | 9780143039709 |
| Publication date: | 28th September 2006 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton, Linda WagnerMartin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 370 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |