The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton's brilliant social novel follows ambition, marriage, money, and status in Gilded Age America and Europe.

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  • The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton is one of the sharpest social satires in…
  • The novel follows Undine Spragg, a relentlessly ambitious young woman determined to…
  • As she moves through New York, Paris, and the elite circles of the early twentieth…
  • Why this Edith Wharton novel stands out Undine is one of the most memorable and…

Undine is one of the most memorable and unsettling protagonists in classic fiction. She is charismatic, frustrating, strategic, and endlessly revealing of the society around her.

The Custom of the Country

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