by Edith Wharton · Sterling Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781593081539
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«The House of Mirth» is Edith Wharton's social criticism novel, published by Sterling Publishing in paperback (400 pages, in English).
The novel follows Lily Bart, a young unmarried woman without fortune in early 20th-century New York high society, who needs to marry well to maintain her status. Her relationship with Lawrence Selden and gossip about her conduct drag her into a social decline that exposes the cruelty and materialism of her surroundings.
Illustrated edition from the Barnes & Noble Classics collection, with introduction and notes by Jeffrey Meyers.
For readers of classics and literary fiction, especially those seeking a social criticism novel 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.
