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The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in Am...
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The House of Mirth was published in 1905 when Edith Wharton was forty-three. She had done very little fiction writing up to that point but had some practice with volumes of short stories and an historical "romantic chronicle" called The Valley of Decision. ... New York upper-class society presented her with the perfect subject,
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Illustrations from the first edition of The House of Mirth ... After a serial run in Scribner's Magazine from January through November 1905, The House of Mirth was published on October 14, 1905, by Charles Scribner's Son's, with illustrations for both editions by A. B. Wenzell. ... The Edith Wharton Society Home Page...
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Facts and figures about The House of Mirth, taken from Freebase, the world's database. ... The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature.
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Attached 3 files. ... The House of Mirth; BY; EDITH WHARTON; BOOK I; Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand; Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss; Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his;
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Society's decision to destroy one of its own--the theme of House of Mirth-- is one of the basic human stories, transcending all settings, possible in any. There is no second set of criteria which would distinguish a "great American novel" that was not also a great novel for all purposes.
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Quizzes on The House of Mirth ... By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata.
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Edith Wharton's "The House Of Mirth" is a sad, but brilliant commentary on the closed, repressive society of the rich, upper class, New York nobility, ...
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