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 Mirthreveals Wharton’s compelling gifts as a storyteller and her clear-eyed observations of the savagery beneath the well-bred surface of high society.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth [EPUB ebook]
House of Mirth [EPUB ebook]
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 400 ● ISBN 9781471152481 ● Publisher Simon & Schuster UK ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5720041 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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