The Custom of the Country

"For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

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.

Undine Spragg is beautiful-anyone in New York will admit to as much. But what is the point of beauty if no one can see you? The Spraggs left the Midwest in search of a glamorous life for their daughter. Now, cooped up in...