x

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

  • Book
  • Reg. Price › $6.00
  • eBook
  • Sale Price › $0.79
  • Book + eBook
  • Reg. Price › $6.60
  • Share this book:
  • Share on Google+

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.

Reprint of the C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905 edition.
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 to 48 hours
ISBN 100486420493
ISBN 139780486420493
Author/EditorEdith Wharton
FormatBook
Grade level9 and Up (ages 14 and up)
Page Count272
Dimensions5 x 8

You might also Like...

Product Review

Out of Stock Notification: