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The House of Mirth (Bantam Classics) - Mass Market Paperback - ACCEPTABLE
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- Unbranded
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- ISBN
- 9780553213201
- Book Title
- House of Mirth
- Item Length
- 6.9 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1984
- Format
- Mass Market
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 4.3 in
- Item Weight
- 4.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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An immensely popular bestseller upon its publication in 1905, The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers" with a precision comparable to that of Proust. And her brilliant and complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and dependence on marriage for economic survival reduce her to a decorative object, becomes an incisive commentary on the nature and status of women in that society. From her tragic attraction to bachelor lawyer Lawrence Selden to her desperate relationship with social-climbing Rosedale, Lily is all too much a product of the world indicated by the title, a phrase taken from Ecclesiastes: "The heart of fools is in the house of mirth." For it is Lily's very specialness that threatens the elegance and fulfillment she seeks in life. Along with the author's other masterpiece, The Age of Innocence , this novel claims a place among the finest American novels of manners.
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Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0553213202
ISBN-13
9780553213201
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Product Key Features
Book Title
House of Mirth
Format
Mass Market
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
1984
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.9 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
4.3 in
Item Weight
4.8 Oz
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Trade
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"A tragedy of our modern life, in which the relentlessness of what men used to call Fate and esteem, in their ignorance, a power beyond their control, is as vividly set forth as ever it was by Aeschylus or Shakespeare."-The New York Times, With an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick, Contemporary Reviews, and Letters Between Edith Wharton and Her Publisher " A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys."--Edith Wharton Lily Bart knows that she must marry--her expensive tastes and mounting debts demand it--and, at twenty-nine, she has every artful wile at her disposal to secure that end. But attached as she is to the social world of her wealthy suitors, something in her rebels against the insipid men whom circumstances compel her to charm. "Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, "on the bare chance that he might ulti- mately do her the honor of boring her for life?" Lily is distracted from her prey by the arrival of Lawrence Selden, handsome, quick-witted, and penniless. A runaway bestseller on publication in 1905, The House of Mirth is a brilliant romantic novel of manners, the book that established Edith Wharton as one of America's greatest novelists. " A tragedy of our modern life, in which the relentlessness of what men used to call Fate and esteem, in their ignorance, a power beyond their control, is as vividly set forth as ever it was by Aeschylus or Shakespeare." --The New York Times Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1920 for The Age of Innocence. But it was the publication of The House of Mirth in 1905 that marked Wharton's coming-of-age as a writer. From the Trade Paperback edition., "A tragedy of our modern life, in which the relentlessness of what men used to call Fate and esteem, in their ignorance, a power beyond their control, is as vividly set forth as ever it was by Aeschylus or Shakespeare."- The New York Times
Copyright Date
1984
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Dewey Edition
23
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