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The House of Mirth (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

 
9780099540762: The House of Mirth (Vintage Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0099540762 ISBN 13: 9780099540762
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2011

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The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth century.

Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends of New York's high society. But time and again Lily cannot bring herself to make the final decisive move: to abandon her sense of self and a chance of love for the final soulless leap into a mercenary union. Her time is running out, and degradation awaits. Edith Wharton's masterful novel is a tragedy of money, morality and missed opportunity.

‘Edith Wharton's 1905 novel gave literature one of its most complicated tragic heroines’ Independent

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Edith Wharton was born in New York City on January 24, 1862. Edith married Teddy Wharton, who was 12 years older. They lived a life of relative ease with homes in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Edith became a prolific writer and produced over 40 books in 40 years.
Edith divorced Teddy in 1912, having no immediate heirs, and never married again. She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and a full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novels became so popular that Ms. Wharton was able to live comfortably on her earnings the rest of her life. Edith continued to write until a stroke took her life in August 1937.

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099540762
ISBN 13 
9780099540762
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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