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The House of Mirth

Introduction by Pamela Knights

By Edith Wharton
Introduction by Pamela Knights

By Edith Wharton
Introduction by Pamela Knights

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Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

Hardcover $26.00

Nov 26, 1991 | ISBN 9780679406679

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Hardcover $26.00
Nov 26, 1991 | ISBN 9780679406679

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About The House of Mirth

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women’s choices at the turn of the century.

 

The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals. As Lily spirals down into debt and dishonor, her story takes on the resonance of classic tragedy. One of Wharton’s most bracing and nuanced portraits of the life of women in a hostile, highly ordered world, The House of Mirth exposes the truths about American high society that its denizens most wished to deny. With an introduction by Pamela Knights.

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About Edith Wharton

The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated by tutors and governesses, she… More about Edith Wharton

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

Hardcover | $26.00
Published by Everyman’s Library
Nov 26, 1991 | 400 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8-1/8 | ISBN 9780679406679
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Praise

“A tragedy of our modern life, in which the relentlessness of what men used to call Fate and esteem…. is as vividly set forth as ever it was by Aeschylus or Shakespeare.”
—The New York Times

“Uniquely authentic among American novels of manners.”
—Louis Auchincloss

“Brilliant….[Lily Bart] is a grand tragic heroine, fit to take center stage with Manon or Emma Bovary, Gwendolen Harleth or Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Anna Karenina or Isabel Archer.”
—Hermione Lee

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