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The Custom of the Country

First published: 1913
Pages: 455

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Chapter 1
22:42
Chapter 2
20:33
Chapter 3
12:23
Chapter 4
29:09
Chapter 5
21:35
Chapter 6
15:01
Chapter 7
18:08
Chapter 8
15:35
Chapter 9
17:37
Chapter 10
25:34
Chapter 11
24:33
Chapter 12
26:04
Chapter 13
21:08
Chapter 14
24:44
Chapter 15
26:17
Chapter 16
20:34
Chapter 17
18:44
Chapter 18
35:05
Chapter 19
13:34
Chapter 20
29:46
Chapter 21
31:33
Chapter 22
14:37
Chapter 23
12:58
Chapter 24
23:24
Chapter 25
12:11
Chapter 26
20:46
Chapter 27
13:01
Chapter 28
11:06
Chapter 29
16:23
Chapter 30
12:23
Chapter 31
14:07
Chapter 32
13:43
Chapter 33
9:46
Chapter 34
10:27
Chapter 35
20:57
Chapter 36
8:16
Chapter 37
17:43
Chapter 38
20:25
Chapter 39
18:11
Chapter 40
16:02
Chapter 41
15:49
Chapter 42
11:46
Chapter 43
14:02
Chapter 44
15:47
Chapter 45
13:59
Chapter 46
27:06

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Undine Spragg, a beautiful and monstrously self-centered young woman from the fictional midwestern town of Apex, arrives in New York with a single ambition: to climb as high as money and marriage can carry her. Edith Wharton follows her through a chain of husbands and divorces, from the old-money Ralph Marvell to a proud French aristocrat to the ruthless financier Elmer Moffatt, each discarded the moment he stops being useful. Sharp and often bitingly funny, the novel skewers a Gilded Age culture in which marriage has become a transaction and appetite recognizes no limit. Wharton's portrait of Undine remains one of the great studies of American ambition and its costs. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones into the New York society she spent a career anatomising, and her first book was about interior decoration rather than fiction: The Decoration of Houses, written in 1897 with the architect Ogden Codman Jr.