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Also by Edith Wharton:

The Custom of the Country, November 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Age of Innocence: The Wild and Wanton Edition Volume 2, February 2014
e-Book
The Age of Innocence: The Wild and Wanton Edition, Volume 1, February 2014
e-Book
The Custom of the Country, January 2009
Hardcover
The House of Mirth, February 2000
Paperback (reprint)
Ethan Frome, March 1997
Paperback (reprint)

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
By: Edith Wharton

Penguin Classics
November 2022
On Sale: November 15, 2022
432 pages
ISBN: 0143137204
EAN: 9780143137207
Kindle: B008495XZQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Contemporary | Fiction Classics

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.