This six week course will look at two novels by the American novelist Edith Wharton.   We will start with her 1913 novel The Custom of the Country (1913) with its depiction of the social climbing Undine Spragg (weeks 1 – 3).  We will then move on to Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Age of Innocence (1920) set in upper-class New York of the 1870s   (weeks 4 – 6).

This course is fully booked.  Please contact us if you would like to be put on a waiting list for cancellations.

Reading schedule:

The Custom of the Country

Week 1 – general introduction and chapters 1-15.

Week 2 – chapters 16 – 31

Week 3 – chapters 32 –  end

 The Age of Innocence

Week 4 – general introduction and chapters 1 – 12

Week 5 – chapters 13 – 24

Week 6 – chapters 25 – end