The Custom Of The Country

by Edith Wharton

"She had everything she wanted—except the one thing she couldn't take."

Undine Spragg is beautiful, ambitious, and utterly ruthless. Arriving in New York from the Midwest, she sets her sights on one thing: the top of society. She marries for status, discards husbands when they stop serving her purposes, and reinvents herself with every new opportunity—leaving a trail of wreckage from New York to Paris.

But the higher she climbs, the clearer it becomes: Undine can conquer society, but never her own insatiable hunger for more.

A razor-sharp, propulsive portrait of American ambition—and a woman who takes everything she wants, and pays a price she never sees coming.

Published
Oct. 21, 1913
Genre
Classic historical fiction Romance
SubGenre
Con Artist Dark Romance Detective Fake Dating Heist Inheritance Legal Fiction Locked Room Love Triangle Magical Realism Missing Perosn Murder Mystery Psychological Thriller Rags-to-Riches Revenge Second Chance Slow Burn Romance Travel Fiction Vampire Women Fiction
Language
en
Total Chapter
50
Total pages
422