by Edith Wharton · Rba · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447366408
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«La casa de la alegría» is the novel by Edith Wharton, published by RBA in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
Lily Bart, an orphan taken in by an aunt in New York high society, remains unmarried ten years later and without the means to be independent. Educated to be an ornament and destined for a good marriage, her story is a slow descent amid strict social conventions, intrigues and pressures that test her integrity.
Novel originally published as «The House of Mirth» in 1905; this Spanish edition appeared in 2010.
For readers of American literary classics and social criticism novels set in early 20th-century 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.
