The house of mirth by: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 ( NOVEL ) (Illustrated) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542760959)

The House of Mirth (1905), a novel by Edith Wharton (1862-1937), tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the turn of the last century. a] Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society. Wharton uses Lily as an attack on "an irresponsible, grasping and morally corrupt upper class." (309-310) Before publication as a book on October 14, 1905, The House of Mirth was serialized in Scribner's Magazine beginning in January 1905. It attracted a readership among housewives and businessmen alike. Charles Scribner wrote Edith in November 1905 that the novel was showing "the most rapid sale of any book ever published by Scribner."

Author: A. B. Wenzell, Edith Wharton
ISBN-10: 154276095X
ISBN-13: 9781542760959
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2017
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.46d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.7
Point Value: 26
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 50682 / House of Mirth