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The House of Mirth

By Edith Wharton

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The House of Mirth

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Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of Wharton's generation. Herself born into Old New York Society, Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by new codes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling the story of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts the age-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways that transform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting moderndocument of cultural anthropology.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
329
Release Date:
2009-03-15
Publication Date:
2008-11-13
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199538107
ISBN13:
9780199538102
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
257 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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