The Custom of the Country: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Animal Fiction The elegant and compelling novel

The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man’s abandonment of his high-flying life in New York—an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11

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a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth

where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church

The Custom of the Country: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Animal Fiction The elegant and compelling novelWhartons sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Whartons second full length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us