Ваша оценкаFirst published in 1913, Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York’s high society from the nouveau riche provides a provocative commentary on the upwardly mobile and the aspirations that eventually cause their ruin. One of Wharton’s most acclaimed works, The Custom of the Country is a stunning indictment of m...
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innashpitzberg17 мая 2017 г.She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.
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The habit of solitude had given him a passion for the printed page, and if he could have found a book anywhere--any kind of a book--he would have forgotten the long hours and the empty house."
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Her husband stood looking at her coldly and curiously, as though she were some alien apparition his eyes had never before beheld.
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