# The Custom of the Country

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- Authors: [Edith Wharton](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-wharton)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4313-721-4
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2023-07-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.