EAN: 9780143137214

PENGUIN CLASSICS DELUXE EDITION THE CUSTOM OF...

Wharton s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg  now in a
Penguin Classics Deluxe 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 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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