The Custom of the Country

Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Classics, Literary
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Author: Edith Wharton, Linda Wagner-Martin ISBN: 9781440649387
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: May 30, 2006
Imprint: Penguin Classics Language: English
Author: Edith Wharton, Linda Wagner-Martin
ISBN: 9781440649387
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: May 30, 2006
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Language: English

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.

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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.

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