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House of Mirth

House of Mirth

Wharton, Edith

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1545479313
ISBN13: 9781545479315
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Apr 19 2017
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The House of Mirth (1905), a novel by Edith Wharton (1862-1937), tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the turn of the last century. Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society. Wharton uses Lily as an attack on an irresponsible, grasping and morally corrupt upper class. (309-310)

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