Undine Spragg arrives in New York from the Midwestern town of Apex with a fortune-hunting mother, an indulgent father and boundless appetite. Beautiful, restless and entirely without scruple, she marries into old Knickerbocker society, finds it dull, and moves on through divorce and remarriage toward the grander drawing rooms of Paris.
Wharton’s sharpest satire of American money and ambition, with one of fiction’s most memorable social climbers at its centre. Download the free EPUB.