The House of Mirth

edith wharton

The House of Mirth stands as the work that first established Edith Wharton's eminent literary reputation. In it she honed her acerbic style and discovered her defining the fashionable New York society in which she had been raised, and which held the power to debase both people and ideals. Its beautiful, intelligent heroine, Lily Bart, is both hopelessly addicted to the pleasures of the moneyed world and unable to survive in it.

Genres classicsfictionhistorical fictionliteraturebook clubamericannovelsnew york20th centuryaudiobook

640 pages, Library Binding

First published October 14,1905

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Format: 640 pages, Library Binding
Published: August 15, 2005 by Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780786277360
ASIN: 078627736X
Language: English

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About the author

edith wharton

Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.