The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton | Part 2 | Full Length Audiobook | Read by Elizabeth Klett
This is a full length audio recording/book of The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (Part 2, Chapter 26-46). Read by Elizabeth Klett.
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine is determined to acquire money and position through marriage, even if it means multiple divorces. - Summary by Elizabeth Klett
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Video Summary
AI GeneratedUndine Sprague is a relentless social climber who navigates marriages and continents to secure wealth and status. After failing in New York, she leverages her beauty and charm to enter the French aristocracy through Raymond de Chelles. However, she finds herself trapped by rigid traditions and emotional indifference, eventually returning to her first husband, the billionaire Elmer Moffat, only to find that true social legitimacy remains unattainable.