by Edith Wharton · RBA Editores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788413292328
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«La casa de la alegría» is the novel by Edith Wharton, published by RBA Editores in hardback (332 pages, in Spanish).
Lily Bart, an orphan raised in New York high society, depends on her aunt's generosity while seeking a good marriage. Educated to be an ornament, her beauty and intelligence are not enough to protect her from the conventions, manipulation and blackmail of her circle, and her position becomes increasingly fragile.
The novel originally appeared as The House of Mirth in 1905; this Spanish edition features a translation by Pilar Giralt Girona.
For readers of classics and social-critique novels set in New York high society.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
