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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101847498795

ISBN-139781847498793

eBay Product ID (ePID)17057267590

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Book TitleHouse of Mirth : Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Contemporary Women

Publication Year2022

GenreFiction

AuthorEdith Wharton

Book SeriesAlma Classics Evergreens Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.52

SynopsisAn impoverished member of the privileged Old New York society, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, yet she has almost reached the age of thirty - a dangerous threshold for a young woman - and is still unmarried. Now she is desperate to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status in society, but her penchant for gambling at cards, her reduced circumstances, her determination to marry for love and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and her constant social faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after suitor appears and fades away, and she is drawn further and further down into a spiral of debt and unhappiness, she realizes that she is just one step away from losing everything she has. Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, The House of Mirth is perhaps Edith Wharton's most popular work - a brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought by the Gilded Age which transcends the novel of manners, as well as a universal satire on the constraints and follies of upper-crust conventions., An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she contracts at the card table, her reduced circumstances and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after suitor appears and fades away, and she is drawn further and further down a spiral of loneliness and unhappiness, she realizes that she is just one step away from losing everything she has., A brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought by the Gilded Age which transcends the novel of manners. Now part of Alma Evergreens series of popular classics

LC Classification NumberPS3545.H16