The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton is a novel published in 1905. It follows Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished woman navigating New York City's high society in the 1890s. As twenty-nine-year-old Lily seeks a husband to secure her future, she faces a slow two-year social descent from privilege toward the margins of society. Wharton crafts a sharp tragedy that exposes the moral corruption of an irresponsible upper class that casually
destroys what is most beautiful within it. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 |
|---|---|
| Title | The House of Mirth |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 67.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Single women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Social classes -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 284 |
| Release Date | Jun 1, 1995 |
| Last Update | Feb 2, 2023 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 4202 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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