The House of Mirth: Introduction by Pamela Knights by Wharton, Edith

The House of Mirth: Introduction by Pamela Knights

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with...
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The House of Mirth: Introduction by Pamela Knights by Wharton, Edith

The House of Mirth: Introduction by Pamela Knights

CHF 36.56

The House of Mirth: Introduction by Pamela Knights

CHF 36.56
Author: Edith Wharton
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.

The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals. As Lily spirals down into debt and dishonor, her story takes on the resonance of classic tragedy. One of Wharton's most bracing and nuanced portraits of the life of women in a hostile, highly ordered world, The House of Mirth exposes the truths about American high society that its denizens most wished to deny. With an introduction by Pamela Knights.



Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 11/26/1991
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.28w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780679406679

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.7
Point Value: 26
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 50682 / House of Mirth


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2008 pg. 123

About the Author
Edith Wharton was born into a privileged New York family in 1862 and died in France in 1937. In addition to her works as a novelist, most famously The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country, and Ethan Frome, she also was a renowned interior designer, and was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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