The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here, she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. Although the worlds she wants to conquer have vanished, Undine herself is amazingly recognizable. She marrie...

The Distance of the Moon

Italo Calvino

Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful short stories taken from Calvino's Cosmicomics....