The Custom of the Country

Name: The Custom of the Country
Author: Edith Wharton

by Edith Wharton

Novel following a woman's ruthless social climbing and opportunistic pursuits

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, recognized for her incisive portraits of New York's Gilded Age aristocracy. Her novels dissect the constraints of social convention with psychological depth and wit.

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