The Custom of the Country Poetry_Gift_Guide Longlisted for the 2020 Booker

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The Custom of the Country Poetry_Gift_Guide Longlisted for the 2020 BookerEdith 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