The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton torrent

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Comedy Of Manners Naxos New York City Satire Society

Written by Edith Wharton
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

Single-minded and spoilt, Undine Spragg arrives in New York determined to procure for herself a social status to match her family’s wealth. Ambition, greed and an arresting beauty soon secure her path to marriage…and also to divorce.

The Custom of the Country (1913) is a sophisticated commentary on both—touching on the implications for a woman of ending a marriage at a time when the author herself was navigating that very situation. As the splendidly mismatched Undine and Ralph travel to Europe, Wharton contrasts the pecuniary motivation of the nouveau riche in America with European ideals of tradition, and through her array of characters and subtle insights into society, she delivers a novel every bit as immersive and entertaining as The Age of Innocence.

April 4 2022
15 hrs and 58 mins