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Summary
(From the publisher):
A literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of a heartless society in which, ultimately, she has no part.
Original title: The House of Mirth
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
This work is excerpted in the following works :
Magic & Madness in the Library (1999) [Anthology]
Authors: Aldous Huxley
, Stephen King
, Ray Bradbury
, Miguel de Cervantes
, Jonathan Swift
, Jules Verne
, Edith Wharton
, Virginia Woolf
, Voltaire
, Umberto Eco
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Washington Irving
, Donald Olson
, Edmund (Lester) Pearson
, Elizabeth McCracken
, Edward Bellamy
, George Crabbe
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