The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Edith Wharton
English | November 15, 2022 | ISBN: 0143137212 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 1.6 MB
English | November 15, 2022 | ISBN: 0143137212 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 1.6 MB
Wharton’s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior décor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate and satisfying plot that follows Undine’s marriages and affairs, she conveys a vision of social behavior that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted.