by Edith Wharton · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781840224191
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The House of Mirth is a novel by Edith Wharton that tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman in New York high society at the turn of the 20th century. Lily faces pressure to find a wealthy husband to maintain her social status, but her search for love and happiness is hampered by rigid social conventions and malicious gossip. As Lily struggles to find her place in a superficial and ruthless world, she becomes embroiled in scandals and betrayals that threaten to destroy her. The novel explores themes such as social class, gender, morality, and the search for identity in a society obsessed with wealth and status.
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.
