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HOUSE OF MIRTH (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

 
9781840224191: HOUSE OF MIRTH (Wordsworth Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1840224193 ISBN 13: 9781840224191
Verlag: WORDSWORTH ED, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of Wharton's generation. Herself born into Old New York Society, Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by new codes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling the story of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts the age-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways that transform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting modern document of cultural anthropology.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a distinguished New York family. She not only lived as part of smart society, but it was one of her principal subjects. She was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and articles. She also produced a volume of poems and an adaptation for the theatre of her novel, The House of Mirth. Ethan Frome, which is considered her greatest tragic story, is, by contrast, about simple New England people.

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Verlag
WORDSWORTH ED
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1840224193
ISBN 13 
9781840224191
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Anzahl der Seiten
294
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