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ZIN Product Number: 11059447
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Audio
Publisher: Books on Tape, Incorporated
ISBN: 5557024298
Release Date: Jan 12, 1995
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel', but concluded that the book was 'brilliantly written', and 'should be read as a parable'. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Wharton was re-creating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics.
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went in thinking I wouldn't like it, but...
-- A reviewer, a TV writer from Los Angeles, February 8, 2000
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
One of Wharton's most memorable characters, Undine Spragg, and her ruthless pursuit of social success in old New York and fashionable Paris
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
As long as men and women seek to use each other -- and to use each other badly -- Edith Wharton can be counted upon to provide the ideal commentary. —Anita Brookner
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Audio - Fiction (Unabridged), Fiction, France, Paris (France), Americans, Upper class, Remarried people, Divorced women, New York (N Y )
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