The custom of the country
By: Edith Wharton ; edited with an introduction and notes by Linda Wagner-Martin.
Contributors: Wagner-Martin, Linda.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Americans -- France -- Fiction; Remarried people -- Fiction; Divorced women -- Fiction; Upper class -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Paris (France) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Mrs and Mrs Spragg are hoping to forge an entree into society and arrange a suitably ambitious match for their only daughter. We follow the career of the selfish, spoiled Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York and determined to conquer high society. Her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity and her father's money.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.