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The Custom of the Country
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 368 pages | ISBN 9780143039709 | 30 May 2006 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
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The Custom of the Country

Wharton's glittering satire of the newly affluent in Old New York

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.
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