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House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Random House
ISBN-100099540762
ISBN-139780099540762
eBay Product ID (ePID)109060282
Product Key Features
Book TitleHouse of Mirth
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Contemporary Women, Literary
Publication Year2011
GenreFiction
AuthorEdith Wharton
Book SeriesVintage Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight9.4 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsEdith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that you're rarely aware as they purl by that the sentences are so pretty...I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done. But 100 years ago, Edith Wharton's drive, independence, wilfulness and autodidactic mastery of the English language were extraordinary, and I bashfully claim her as a kindred spirit, "Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that you're rarely aware as they purl by that the sentences are so pretty . . . Edith Wharton's drive, independence, wilfulness and autodidactic mastery of the English language were extraordinary, and I bashfully claim her as a kindred spirit." -Lionel Shriver, author, We Need to Talk about Kevin, "Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that you're rarely aware as they purl by that the sentences are so pretty . . . Edith Wharton's drive, independence, wilfulness and autodidactic mastery of the English language were extraordinary, and I bashfully claim her as a kindred spirit." --Lionel Shriver, author, We Need to Talk about Kevin
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Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisThe tragic fall of one of the most heartbreaking characters in American literature, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of 19th century New York high society Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury, and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends of New York's high society. But time and again Lily cannot bring herself to make the final decisive move: to abandon her sense of self and a chance of love for the final soulless leap into a mercenary union. Her time is running out, and degradation awaits. Edith Wharton's masterful novel is a tragedy of money, morality, and missed opportunity., The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth century. Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage- beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends of New York's high society. But time and again Lily cannot bring herself to make the final decisive move- to abandon her sense of self and a chance of love for the final soulless leap into a mercenary union. Her time is running out, and degradation awaits. Edith Wharton's masterful novel is a tragedy of money, morality and missed opportunity. 'Edith Wharton's 1905 novel gave literature one of its most complicated tragic heroines' Independent
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