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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486420493

ISBN-139780486420493

eBay Product ID (ePID)128457784

Product Key Features

Book TitleHouse of Mirth

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Literary

Publication Year2002

GenreFiction

AuthorEdith Warton

Book SeriesDover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight6.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-050839

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromNinth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.52

SynopsisWharton's first literary success, set amid fashionable New York society, reveals the hypocrisy and destructive effects of the city's social circle on the character of Lily Bart. Impoverished but well-born, Lily must secure her future by acquiring a wealthy husband; but her downfall -- initiated by a romantic indiscretion -- results in gambling debts and social disasters., Impoverished but well-born, Lily Bart must secure her future by acquiring a wealthy husband. A romantic indiscretion, however, initiates her downfall, which climaxes in a maelstrom of social disasters., 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., Wharton's first literary success, set amid the previously unexplored territory of fashionable New York society, reveals the hypocrisy and destructive effects of the city's social circle on the character of Lily Bart. Impoverished but well-born, Lily must secure her future by acquiring a wealthy husb

LC Classification NumberPS3545.H16H68 2002