Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country
Hardcover
(Everyman's Library Oct. 4, 1994)
Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves from America’s heartland to Manhattan, and then to Paris, Wharton’s critical eye leaves no social class unscathed.
- Series
- Everyman's Library Classics Series
- ISBN
- 067942301X / 9780679423010
- Pages
- 456
- Weight
- 19.36 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.2 x 1.2 in.
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