The Custom of the Country: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Wharton’s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, with a foreword by
Sofia Coppola

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 journey of Undine Spragg from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of the America’s interior and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through the intricate plot of Undine’s marriages and affairs, Wharton conveys a vision of a social class that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted.

Author: Edith Wharton
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 11/15/2022
Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.12w x 1.26d
ISBN: 9780143137214
Language: English