Publisher's Synopsis
Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society," who spent much of her life in France. In this novel she tells the story of Undine Sprague, the thrice- (or more) married, upwardly mobile beauty from "Apex City," transplanted to New York, and finally to France, leaving the dead and wounded in the wake of her "experiments in happiness."