The House of Mirth (Wordsworth Classics)
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9781840224191
Brand
Wordsworth
Author
Edith Wharton
Producer
Wordsworth
Weight
204 gr
Pages
320
Year of production
2002
Binding
125x200
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily"s life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.