The Custom of the Country

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Custom of the Country
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Edith Wharton
Foreword by Sofia Coppola
Introduction by Sarah Blackwood
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 135
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780143137214
ClassificationsDewey:813.52
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
NZ Release Date 14 February 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 Edition 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 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.

Author Biography

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born Edith Newbold Jones. A member of a distinguished New York family, she was educated privately in America and abroad. During her life, she published more than forty volumes- novels, stories, verse, essays, travel books, and memoirs.