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  • Published: 17 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780143137207
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $55.00
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The Custom of the Country

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)




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 
 

A Penguin Vitae Edition

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

A Penguin Vitae Edition

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. 

  • Published: 17 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780143137207
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

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The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

About the author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.

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