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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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"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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--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
* 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.
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