
The House of Mirth
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Edith Wharton(Author)
Alma Classics (Publisher)
Published on 24. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-84749-879-3 (ISBN)
Description
An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she contracts at the card table, her reduced circumstances and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after suitor appears and fades away, and she is drawn further and further down a spiral of loneliness and unhappiness, she realizes that she is just one step away from losing everything she has.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Richmond
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Alma Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
283 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84749-879-3 (9781847498793)
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American author best known for the novel The Age of Innocence, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making her the first female winner of the award.