The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

First published 1905 · 348 pages

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Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world.

  • Fiction
  • Single women
  • Social classes
  • Drama
  • Social life and customs
  • Classic Literature
  • Social status
  • Social values

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