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The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals. As Lily spirals down into debt and dishonor, her story takes on the resonance...
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Introduction by Pamela Knights
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An immensely popular bestseller upon its publication in 1905, The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton’s first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called “a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers” with a precision comparable to that of Proust. And her brilliant and complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and dependence...
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Edith Wharton`s the House of Mirth Description: Description not available. Author: Beer, Janet ISBN: 9780415350099 Format: Hardcover Pages: 168 Publish Date: 09/13/2007 Publisher: Routledge Language: English Portions copyright 2005 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.
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The upper stratum of New York society into which E ...
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton - MonkeyNotes Summary/Study Guide RTF
This is our MonkeyNotes downloadable and printable literature summary / booknotes / study guide / book review / chapter notes for "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton in Rich Text Format (.RTF).
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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by the success of recent film adaptations, it is also an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today.
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March 26, 2009: My 10th-grade English teacher handed me a copy of the House of Mirth about halfway through that school year and told me she thought I'd really enjoy it and Edith Wharton. I was hesitant, but I read it because I was 15 and a teacher was suggesting it, which might have been mixed up with assigning it in my mind. But boy, am I glad I read it! Reading The House of Mirth was the start of a lifelong love affair with Edith Wharton, her books, her characters, and her stories....
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INTRODUCTION The train, meanwhile, had scarcely s ...
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CLASSIC COLLECTION: The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals. As Lily spirals down into debt and dishonor, her story...
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A literary sensation when it was published by Scri ...
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America's most famous woman of letters, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton was born into one of the last "leisured class" families in New York City, as she put it, in 1862. Educated privately, she was married to Edward Wharton in 1885, and for the next few years, they spent their time in the high society of Newport (Rhode Island), then Lenox (Massachusetts) and Europe. It was in Europe that Wharton first met Henry James, who was to have a profound and lasting influence on...
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The House of Mirth, Signet Classics Series, Edith Wharton
March 26, 2009: My 10th-grade English teacher handed me a copy of the House of Mirth about halfway through that school year and told me she thought I'd really enjoy it and Edith Wharton. I was hesitant, but I read it because I was 15 and a teacher was suggesting it, which might have been mixed up with assigning it in my mind. But boy, am I glad I read it! Reading The House of Mirth was the start of a lifelong love affair with Edith Wharton, her books, her characters, and her stories....
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A literary sensation when it was published by Char ...
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Edith Wharton: Novels The House of Mirth, the Reef, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence Books
Books. Edith Wharton: Novels The House of Mirth, the Reef, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence
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The House of Mirth, Bantam Classics Series, Edith Wharton, Book
March 26, 2009: My 10th-grade English teacher handed me a copy of the House of Mirth about halfway through that school year and told me she thought I'd really enjoy it and Edith Wharton. I was hesitant, but I read it because I was 15 and a teacher was suggesting it, which might have been mixed up with assigning it in my mind. But boy, am I glad I read it! Reading The House of Mirth was the start of a lifelong love affair with Edith Wharton, her books, her characters, and her stories....
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into an old, wealthy New York family characterized by its devotion to tradition and its repression of emotion. Wharton was quite unhappily married, finally divorcing her husband after many years of separation. Her writing is marked by its portrayal of women who struggle to escape from the constraints placed on them, women trying to live in a future state of freedom that hasn't yet arrived. Lily Bart, heroine of The House of Mirth (1905), is typical of these heroines...
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universiti ...
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The House of Mirth depicts the glittering salons o ...
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