The Custom of the Country (version 2)

Loved to Hate

(4.5 stars)

Moji

Loved Elizabeth Klett's reading while busy hating Undine.

psycho b-word women is not a new phenomenon

(5 stars)

darthlaurel

Destructive, weak, conniving, and /or passive women are the bane of so many people's existence. Every version is on display in this story. As well as a few (very few) good ones. Amazingly well read. Very sad the main character didn't die a terrible death.

It just AINT right....

(5 stars)

Y. Michelle Webb

The satisfaction of no satisfaction, lol!

Brava!

(5 stars)

TheBookworm

Edith Wharton has never been a favourite of mine. The Age of Innocence left me flat and i couldn't even finish the House of Mirth. So I approached this one with skepticism and was ready to dump it after a chapter. Was I in for a surprize! This is a griping and insightful critique of upper middle class American culture at the turn of the 19th century. I won't give it away but the story reveals how the "custom of the country" created a certain kind of woman and the inevitable outcome. The protagonist is far from likable and yet we stick with her to the end-- which is quite brilliant in itself. As always, Elizabeth Klett does a wonderful job of narration. Tone, pace, everything is spot on. Well done Elizabeth and thank you for making me look twice at this great author. Surely one of the great American novels. TheBookworm (Manchester, UK)

Excellent, mannered and erudite

(5 stars)

Ozoneocean

Elizabeth Klatt gives a fine reading, as usual, very appropriate for the work. It's a cutting story about an ambitious, yet shallow woman, as she cuts her way through the men of America and Europe, always seeking something better, never satisfied. Undine has no scruples and not a single unselfish bone in her body. She's calculating, coniving and willing to use all her natural tallents and weapons at her disposal to achieve any objective she desires in her continual quest to have all that she wants from life.

(5 stars)

Sara Virginia

First, wonderful job by the literary dream team, Wharton and Klett! Second, I was irate every minute of this book. I'm truly glad that I don't know anyone named Undine because I don't think I could stand to talk to them until I cool down. I can't remember any character I have hated so passionately as Undine.

(4 stars)

Laurence in massachusetts

A very good reading and pleasurable to listen to: The reader handles Wharton’s language very well including the many foreign names, places, titles etc. A vast improvement over version 1 - which has many different readers, many of whom are very poor.

Mr. Spragg. ill equipped to tame his shrews.

(4 stars)

1nsVn

Undine's in dire need of a lass wupping. Elizabeth Klett's narration makes a mediocre or bad book better, and a good read GREAT 👌