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  • Published: 14 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780143137214
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $29.99

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 Classics Deluxe Edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola

A Penguin Classics Deluxe 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: 14 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9780143137214
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $29.99

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