The Custom of the Country (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Edith Wharton

Overview

The Custom of the Country (1913) focuses on a Midwestern girl, Undine Spragg, who attempts to win a high position in New York society. With clear motives and dark secrets, Undine enters the city’s social scene. The unscrupulous, ever-unsatisfied Undine, through divorce and blackmail, schemes endlessly for what is beyond her grasp.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411438699
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	02/15/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	362
Sales rank:	577,064
File size:	422 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an acclaimed chronicler and keen observer of privileged society, novelist, and short story writer. Her novel The Age of Innocence made her the first female Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in 1921. She is the also the author of The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome.

Date of Birth:

January 24, 1862

Date of Death:

August 11, 1937

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

Education:

Educated privately in New York and Europe