The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff Richard Pevear Her departure leaves behind not

Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter

she gets to pick out some yellow-framed glasses

But no one can replicate what is obtained by chance

from the author of Trust Exercise

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff Richard Pevear Her departure leaves behind notFor my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker Edith Whartons compulsively readable 20th century classic about the conquests of Undine Spragg, the glamorous and insatiable social climbernow with a new introduction by Brandon Taylor. Undine Spragg is beautifulanyone 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