| House of Mirth Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1545479313 ISBN-13: 9781545479315 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Lexile Measure: 1230 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.75 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The House of Mirth (1905), a novel by Edith Wharton (1862-1937), tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the turn of the last century. Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society. Wharton uses Lily as an attack on "an irresponsible, grasping and morally corrupt upper class." (309-310) |