<b>"For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine." --Jia Tolentino, <i>The New Yorker</i></b> <p/><b>Edith Wharton's compulsively readable 20th century classic about the conquests of Undine Spragg, the glamorous and insatiable social climber--now with a new introduction by Brandon Taylor.</b> <p/>Undine Spragg is beautiful--anyone in New York will admit to as much. But what is the point of beauty if no one can <i>see </i>you? The Spraggs left the Midwest in search of a glamorous life for their daughter. Now, cooped up in a gilded uptown hotel they can barely afford, they begin to fear their move to the big city was for naught. But Undine is determined. And Undine always gets her way. <p/>What follows is a tactical climb to the pinnacle of affluence and early 20th-century high society that will amaze and mortify. Witty and devasting, <i>The Custom of the Country</i> is an astute comedy of manners and a scathing satire of upper-class life that bites to this day. More than a century after its original publication, Edith Wharton's 1913 masterpiece remains an un-put-downable showcase for one of the most memorable, controversial anti-heroines in American literature.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff<br><b>Publisher:</b> Scribner Book Company<br><b>Published:</b> 08/01/1997<br><b>Pages:</b> 528<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.93lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.93h x 5.27w x 1.29d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780684825885<br><p><b>About the Author</b