The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

The Custom of the Country by Edith WhartonEdith 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

Sleepy Hollow and Nightmare Before Christmas

It is also a treasure chest of history and myth

she knows what's expected of her: bleach

The erasure

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A Washington Post Notable Novel

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she will find the strength to keep running

and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry

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with nowhere else left to go

Will they ever have land and a home they can call their own