The House of Mirth (Bantam Classics) - Softcover

Edith Wharton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553213202 ISBN 13: 9780553213201

Publisher: Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

A literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905, "The House of Mirth" quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of a heartless society in which, ultimately, she has no part.

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Review:

"A tragedy of our modern life, in which the relentlessness of what men used to call Fate and esteem, in their ignorance, a power beyond their control, is as vividly set forth as ever it was by Aeschylus or Shakespeare."--The New York Times

Book Description:

* First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH portrays the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0553213202
• ISBN 13: 9780553213201
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 464