The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton's "The Custom of the Country" is a masterful exploration of the interplay between ambition, societal norms, and the complexities of personal discontent within early 20th-century American society. Written in a rich, incisive prose style, the novel follows the ambitious Undine Spragg, a new-money social climber who navigates the upper echelons of New York society with ruthless determin...