The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
The House of Mirth - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth Release date is 1995-06-01
"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton is a novel published in 1905. It follows Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished woman navigating New York City's high society in the 1890s. As twenty-nine-year-old Lily seeks a husband to secure her future, she faces a slow two-year social descent from privilege toward the margins of society. Wharton crafts a sharp tragedy that exposes the moral corruption of an irresponsible upper class that casually destroys what is most beautiful within it. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Psychological fiction Single women -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction
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The House of Mirth - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth Release date is 1995-06-01
"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton is a novel published in 1905. It follows Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished woman navigating New York City's high society in the 1890s. As twenty-nine-year-old Lily seeks a husband to secure her future, she faces a slow two-year social descent from privilege toward the margins of society. Wharton crafts a sharp tragedy that exposes the moral corruption of an irresponsible upper class that casually destroys what is most beautiful within it. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Psychological fiction Single women -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction
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