The Custom of the Country: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Author(s): Edith Wharton
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 Classics Deluxe EditionConsidered 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 decor 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Canada
- : Penguin Canada
- : 600.0
- : 28 February 2023
- : 216mm x 135mm x 216mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Edith Wharton
- : FC
- : 400
- : 813.52
- : English
- : Paperback