The House of Mirth

By: Wharton, Edith

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08QKY2X2Z
• ISBN13: 9798581298190
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"