The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Literature and entertaining the exiled King

and entertaining the exiled King and Queen of Bohemia along the way

The hidden daughter of a long-standing affair

She may be the best writer of stories since the early-1950s prime of John Cheever

The Guardian

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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Literature and entertaining the exiled KingConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Whartons second full length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior dcor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly