The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits – her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily’s life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.
The House of Mirth
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| ISBN | 9781840224191 |
|---|---|
| Autorius | Wharton, Edith |
| Leidimo metai | 2002 |
| Puslapių | 320 |
| Leidinio kalba | anglų kalba |
| Formatas | knyga popieriniu viršeliu |
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