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The Custom of the Country (1913)

av Edith Wharton

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Can't get enough of the Gilded Age fast talkers, débutantes, and social climbers who populate Edith Wharton's exquisitely wrought novels? Fans of The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence will love The Custom of the Country, which details country girl Undine Spragg's attempt to take a bite out of Big Apple high society.… (mer)

  1. 40
    Daniel Deronda : roman av George Eliot (davidcla)
    davidcla: Wharton's 1913 novel is excellent, and very interesting to read as a companion to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. Wharton's Undine casts Eliot's Gwendolen in a new light. And vice versa.
  2. 40
    Glädjens hus av Edith Wharton (jennybhatt)
    jennybhatt: While the heroine of this novel is also a social climber, she's a more sympathetic portrait that contrasts well.
  3. 30
    Madame Bovary av Gustave Flaubert (Limelite)
    Limelite: This social climbing, greedy, French counterpart of Undine doesn't get the same ending. Her story does, however, benefit from Flaubert's trenchant satire of the bourgoisie.
  4. 20
    Borta med vinden av Margaret Mitchell (jennybhatt)
    jennybhatt: As social climbers go, Scarlett O'Hara ranks among the top ones. The similarities (marrying or attaching to various men as a way to get ahead) and evolutionary differences (the self-determination to make it solo if needed and feasible) between Undine Spragg and Scarlett O'Hara provide interesting juxtaposition.… (mer)
  5. 10
    Fåfängans marknad : en roman utan hjälte av William Makepeace Thackeray (aprille)
  6. 00
    Pink and White Tyranny av Harriet Beecher Stowe (espertus)
    espertus: A lighter account of the marriage of a selfish social climber to an upstanding man
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Excellent writing but I didn't really like or connect with the characters. The protagonist, Undine, is one of the most self-centered, materialistic fictional characters I've ever encountered on the written page. I do still plan to try reading The Age of Innocence, which is Wharton's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Otherwise, I'm generally not a big fan of stories set during the Gilded Age. ( )
  Ann_R | Aug 7, 2023 |
This was a tough one. Wharton is such a skilled writer with a keen observant eye for her social milieu, but I really think she missed her mark with Custom. I've had an ongoing argument with my partner about whether this could be considered a feminist work; I think it is one of her few novels that is pointedly anti-feminist, and more socially conservative. By creating the monstrous character of Undine Spragg, who is horrible in such an over-the-top way, Wharton seems to be satirizing the social climbers who are willing to trample on relations and customs in order to achieve material success. The older more established New York families seem to be the only ones who see Undine for what she is, and Ralph Marvell is the only truly good person, a tragic hero whose old ideas of marriage are not able to cope with Undine's need for riches and glory.

Some critics have called the novel a satire on marriage and divorce. Undine is a satirical character in that she is a pure consumption machine who has no character arc - she represents the voracious capitalism of the era that corrupts everyone who touches it. Elmer Moffat is the male counterpart, the crude business genius who confidently knows what he wants, which is more stuff. Everyone else resists Undine's corruption, although it is hinted that her neglected son Paul will eventually succumb to the amoral pursuits of his putative parents. ( )
  jonbrammer | Jul 1, 2023 |
Ghastly though our anti-heroine is, I found it difficult to put down. The end is a one-page triumph for the authot.
In this edition the editor's asterisks are somewhat irritating, leading to endnotes listed by page number, explaining such things as Pegasus was "the winged horse of the muses", which isn't quite the case! ( )
  NaggedMan | Jun 29, 2023 |
Edith Wharton was did not like the "new rich" who were taking over New York around the turn of the century, and in "The Custom of the Country" she makes it very clear why. The heroine, Undine Spagg, a midwestern beauty who comes to New York in search of the social advancement she has always craved, is not likeable, but she is VERY compelling. The story traces the ups and downs of her quest for the level of social advancement that will finally make her happy. Along the way, the novel pillories the new rich, and holds the old rich up to a regretful examination. The book is a great read -- you may not like Undine, but you do want to find out what she does next -- and extremely witty. Wharton's ability to turn a phrase was unparalleled. I wish someone would -- could -- write a book like this about today's 1%. ( )
  annbury | Apr 9, 2023 |
La familia Spragg, que se ha hecho rica en una pequeña ciudad del medio oeste, lleva dos años viviendo en Nueva York sin conseguir abrirse paso en su intrincada maraña de jerarquías sociales. Son "gente corriente" que "aún no había aprendido a avergonzarse de ello". Su hija, Undine, ayudada por su encanto y extraordinaria belleza, logra hacerse un hueco en el gran mundo y despertar su admiración, aunque no tarda en comprender que en él los hombres la ven como "materia de pura carne". Persiguiendo la respetabilidad, se casa con Ralph Marvell, miembro de uno de los más distinguidos clanes de la vieja Nueva York, pero habrá de descubrir que no siempre el buen nombre y el dinero van en el mismo lote. Poco dispuesta a renunciar a ninguna de las dos cosas, el matrimonio se convierte para ella en una carrera, como los negocios o las tierras lo son para los hombres. Un atildado conde francés y un enérgico especulador norteamericano la esperan en el accidentado −a veces trágico− camino de su ascensión.
  Natt90 | Jan 17, 2023 |
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The first time I read Edith Wharton’s novel “The Custom of the Country,” which was published in 1913, I felt at once that I had always known its protagonist and also that I had never before met anyone like her. The values of Undine Spragg—who, in the course of the novel, makes a circuitous and sinister journey from Midwestern rube to ruby-drenched new-money empress—are repulsive, and her attempts to manipulate public attention are mesmerizing. For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine—a dazzling monster with rose-gold hair, creamy skin, and a gaping spiritual maw that could swallow New York City. People like her have been abundant in American culture for some time, but I never feel invested in their success; more often, I idly hope for their failure. With Undine, however—thanks to the alchemical mix of sympathy and disdain that animates Wharton’s language in the novel and allows her to match Undine’s savagery with plenty of her own—I find myself wanting her to get everything she desires.
tillagd av danielx | ändraThe New Yorker, Jia Tolentino (Sep 1, 2019)
 
Edith Wharton's "The Custom of the Country" turned 100 this year, and the adventures of its heroine, Undine Spragg, remain as brazen today as when she first advanced upon the American scene.
tillagd av danielx | ändraThe Wall Street Journal, Leonard Cassuto (betalvägg) (Dec 13, 2013)
 

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"Undine Spragg – how can you?’ her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid ‘bell-boy’ had just brought in.
Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country (1913), takes its title from a Jacobean play by Fletcher and Massinger about the buying and selling of women's bodies, but the country whose customs she mercilessly satirizes in the novel is her native America. (Introduction)
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"Just so; she'd even feel aggrieved. But why? Because
it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault
is that? The man's again—I don't mean Ralph I mean
the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, Americanus.
Why haven't we taught our women to take an interest
in our work? Simply because we don't take enough
interest in THEM."
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