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House of Mirth by Edith Warton (2002, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherWordsworth Editions, The Limited

ISBN-101840224193

ISBN-139781840224191

eBay Product ID (ePID)60421108

Product Key Features

Book TitleHouse of Mirth

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Literary

Publication Year2002

GenreFiction

AuthorEdith Warton

Book SeriesClassics Library

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal813/.52

SynopsisThe heroine of this novel is Lily Bart, whose goal is to secure a rich husband who can sustain her lifestyle. She operates in a world where social position is important, but money can buy it. Lily is redeemed by her clear view of the corrupt society which is her gilded cage., Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University. 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 bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton's most accomplished and compelling social satires.