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Two of Edith Wharton's most celebrated novels explore the rigid social codes and hidden tensions of New York's Gilded Age society. In The House of Mirth, Wharton tells the tragic story of Lily Bart, a beautiful and intelligent young woman navigating the complex expectations of New York's wealthy social world. Dependent upon marriage for financial security yet unwilling to sacrifice her independence, Lily finds herself trapped within a society that values wealth and status above sincerity and compassion. The Age of Innocence, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, offers a subtle and poignant portrait of love and duty in the same aristocratic world. Through the story of Newland Archer and the unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, Wharton examines the conflict between personal desire and the strict moral codes that governed upper-class society in nineteenth-century New York. Together these novels represent some of the finest achievements of American literary realism. With keen psychological insight and elegant prose, Edith Wharton exposes the delicate balance between appearance and reality in a society shaped by tradition, privilege, and unspoken rules.
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer whose works examine the complexities of social life among the upper classes of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Born into a prominent New York family, Wharton possessed intimate knowledge of the society she later depicted in her fiction.Her novels often explore themes of social expectation, personal freedom, and the moral constraints of tradition. Among her best-known works are The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, and The Custom of the Country.In 1921 Wharton became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Age of Innocence. Today she is widely regarded as one of the most important American novelists of her era.
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