Name: The House of Mirth: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
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Author: Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9781847498793

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The House of Mirth: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Alma Books

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781847498793

Synopsis "The House of Mirth: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)"

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.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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