
The House of Mirth
- Autor: Wharton Edith
- ISBN: 9781840224191
- EAN: 9781840224191
- Oprawa: Miękka
- Wydawca: Wordsworth
- Format: 12.5x19.5cm
- Język: angielski
- Liczba stron: 299
- Rok wydania: 2020
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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.