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The House of Mirth (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The House of MirthThe heroine of this novel is Lily Bart, whose goal is to secure a rich husband who can sustain her lifestyle. She operates in a world where social position is important, but money can buy it. Lily is redeemed by her clear view of the corrupt society which is her gilded cage.
Full description- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Published: 05 February 2002
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781840224191 ISBN 10: 1840224193
- Sales rank: 6,080
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Full description for The House of Mirth
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.
