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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

ISBN: 9781840224191 PUBLISHER: Wordsworth Editions Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 320 PUBLICATION DATE: 5.02.2002 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX17mm 202grams

DESCRIPTION: The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity. The House of Mirth was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant best-seller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton's most accomplished and compelling social satires.

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