Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America\'s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls.
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Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory.
Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America\'s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls