Wharton, Edith,  1862-1937 <br/><br/>
The House of Mirth 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth  Release date is 1995-06-01 
<br/><br/> "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.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Psychological fiction Single women -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction 
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