Everyman Classics: The Custom Of The Country

Across Central Park lies another country . . .

There, night after glittering night, in an endless, whirling round of parties and soirees, the people who could meet. Yet, as young Undine Spragg discovers when she arrives to take up the place she has always assumed will be hers, it is a land that does not welcome foreigners. Generations of caste and convention guard its frontiers; a thousand little traps lie in wait for the unwary trespasser.

But Undine is not content to pine away among "the obscure mass of the Uninvited", and she has weapons of her own to bring to the fight: her wealth, her dazzling looks and - above all - her ruthless determination. in Undine, at last, New York has met its match.

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