The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton
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The Custom of the Country

Author: Edith Wharton, Sofia Coppola

Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Narrator: Mara Wilson

Unabridged: 15 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 11/03/2026

Synopsis

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. 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. As Undine moves from America’s heartland to Manhattan, and then to Paris, Wharton’s critical eye leaves no social class unscathed.

About The Author

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, a historical romance called The Valley of Decision, in 1902. The book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth, published in 1905. She died in 1937.Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the editor of The Portable Edith Wharton.

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"Edith Wharton's finest achievement."
--Elizabeth Hardwick

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