A ruthlessly beautiful social climber divorces and marries her way up through Gilded Age society. Wharton's biting satire of American money and ambition.
Books mentioned in The Custom of the Country (1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle: “But for this ornament, and a copy of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" which lay beside it, the room showed no traces of human use, and Mrs.”
Books that mention The Custom of the Country (2)
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan: “Edith Wharton—The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth (must be read in strict order).”
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “unlike her other major novels, The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence is not a story of contemporary America”