The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

The beautiful, ruthless, endlessly dissatisfied Undine Spragg climbs from a raw Midwestern town to the top of society, using marriage as a ladder and discarding husbands and a child along the way. Wharton's savage social comedy.

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