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Wharton, Edith : The House of Mirth

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Series: Wordsworth Classics.

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.
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category: Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > Literature in English >
publisher: Wordsworth, 2002
item number / ISBN: 9781840224191
binding: paperback
pages: 294
language: English
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