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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Custom of the Country about?

Ruthless and predatory, Edith Wharton’s seductive young heroine Undine Spragg exploits a series of husbands from the American west to New York and France in her search for one with the ideal combination of social power, money, and material possessions―something “more luxurious, more exciting, more worthy of her!” Wharton’s criticism of the leisure-class marriage market becomes a brilliant satire on the nature of desire, as the novel links marriage and divorce with selfish ambition and the culture of consumerism. This Broadview edition provides a critical introduction and appendices that include Wharton’s outline for and correspondence about __The Custom of the Country__, excerpts from Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s novella __Undine__, and passages from works by Charles Darwin, Emma Goldman, Henry James, and Thorstein Veblen, among others.

Who reads The Custom of the Country?

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Broadview Press Inc.

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781551116730

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humour

Rating

4.02 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14