From the rear cover
A bestseller when it was originally published nearly a century ago, Wharton's first literary success was set amid the previously unexplored territory of fashionable, turn-of-the-century New York society, an area with which she was intimately familiar.
The tragic love story reveals the destructive effects of wealth and social hypocrisy on Lily Bart, a ravishing beauty. Impoverished but well-born, Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. Her downfall begins with a romantic indiscretion, intensifies with an accumulation of gambling debts, and climaxes in a maelstrom of social disasters.
More a tale of social exclusion than of failed love, The House of Mirth reveals Wharton's compelling gifts as a storyteller and her clear-eyed observations of the savagery beneath the well-bred surface of high society. As with The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome, this novel was also made into a successful motion picture.
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- Title The House of Mirth
- Author Edith Wharton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, NY
- Date 2002-08
- ISBN 9780486420493 / 0486420493
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 6.44 x 0.66 in (21.89 x 16.36 x 1.68 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Reading level 1230
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, New York (N.Y.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001050839
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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