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  • Published: 2 December 1991
  • ISBN: 9781857150469
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 408
  • RRP: $35.00

The House of Mirth




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Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by 'old money' and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing, and to maintain her in the luxury she has come to expect. Whilst many have sought her, something—fastidiousness or integrity—prevents her from making a 'suitable' match.

  • Published: 2 December 1991
  • ISBN: 9781857150469
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 408
  • RRP: $35.00

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About the author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.

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