The House of Mirth (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486420493 ISBN 13: 9780486420493

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc, 2003

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Book by Wharton Edith

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Wharton's first literary success, set amid fashionable New York society, reveals the hypocrisy and destructive effects of the city's social circle on the character of Lily Bart. Impoverished but well-born, Lily must secure her future by acquiring a wealthy husband; but her downfall ― initiated by a romantic indiscretion ― results in gambling debts and social disasters.

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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.

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• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486420493
• ISBN 13: 9780486420493
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288