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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

About 620 pages (186,097 words) in 11 products

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The Custom of the Country eBook
122,885 words, approx. 410 pages
The complete online text of The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton.


Author Biography

Name: Edith Wharton
Birth Date: January 24, c. 1861
Death Date: August 11, 1937
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author

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Biography of Edith Wharton
398 words, approx. 1.3 pages
Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan. 24, 1861. Like many other biographical facts, she k...
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Biography of Edith Wharton
11246 words, approx. 37.5 pages
While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particularly during the Jazz Age and the Depression, a counterva...
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Biography of Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton
10899 words, approx. 36.3 pages
Perhaps the most striking thing about Edith Wharton 's reputation as a novelist is the fact that she has been "reclaimed" so many times. This fact seems all the more remarkable when one reflects that before her death in 1937, her novels and short stories...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Custom of the Country Information
1,280 words, approx. 4 pages
The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton, published when she was 51 years...


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The Washington Post
The Custom of the Country Ham
11/10/1991: 2,157 words, approx. 7 pages
"That one we hung the day Nixon resigned," said Hattie Felts. Above her head was a charred-looking, shrunken, mold-covered pig's leg. "That would be 18 years ago, just after Mr. Felts passed away, rest his soul." A fitting tribute, I thought - not to...
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Indianapolis Business Journal
Vets serve country, customers
11/26/2007: 1,096 words, approx. 4 pages
On Veterans Day this year, retired U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Robert Flores didn't attend parades or reminisce with friends. Instead, he worked from open to close at his Little Caesars Pizza store at 11530 Westfield Blvd. "I've been here every day since...
 


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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

About 620 pages (186,097 words) in 11 products




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