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Title: The Custom of the Country by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nick De Somogyi ISBN: 0-87830-102-X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: A great read and splendid prose
Comment: A "potboiler" (c.f. Wharton's phrase about the masterpieces of literature) that is disguised only by occasional, powerful strokes. Undine is one of the great heroines--and one you can believe in. But its "potboiler" origin manifests itself in the rather "cheap" suicide of Ralph (perhaps I am sore because I love him). More importantly, the shifting-perspective narration, which could have made this a great novel, instead exposes a lack of unity (when for instance Ralph is erased, and so with him a good half of the novel's characters--never to return. Ah, but I dwell...). Too many of the players, therefor, seem like tools. Here is a lightweight James plus Howells, and perhaps prefigures Fitzgerald. Still, a great read and splendid prose.