The House of Mirth

Fiction & Literature, Classics
Cover of the book The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Dover Publications
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Edith Wharton ISBN: 9780486112695
Publisher: Dover Publications Publication: March 2, 2012
Imprint: Dover Publications Language: English
Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780486112695
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication: March 2, 2012
Imprint: Dover Publications
Language: English

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 Mirth reveals Wharton's compelling gifts as a storyteller and her clear-eyed observations of the savagery beneath the well-bred surface of high society. As with The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome, this novel was also made into a successful motion picture.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 Mirth reveals Wharton's compelling gifts as a storyteller and her clear-eyed observations of the savagery beneath the well-bred surface of high society. As with The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome, this novel was also made into a successful motion picture.

More books from Dover Publications

Cover of the book Treasury of Medieval Illustrations by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book The Call of the Wild by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book Four Great Russian Plays by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book Marionettes by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book The Railway Children by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book Set Theory: The Structure of Arithmetic by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book Theory of Functions, Parts I and II by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book The Classic Tradition of Haiku by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book Differential Games by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book Eclogues and Georgics by Edith Wharton
Cover of the book Thirty Years that Shook Physics by Edith Wharton
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy