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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679725393
ISBN-139780679725398
eBay Product ID (ePID)14318
Product Key Features
Book TitleHouse of Mirth
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, General, Literary
Publication Year1990
GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction
AuthorEdith Warton, Tom Wharton
Book SeriesVintage-Library of America
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-050138
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisBorn in 1862 into an exclusive New York society -- against whose rigid mores she often rebelled -- Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. The House of Mirth (1905), her tenth book, is the story of young Lily Bart and her tragic sojourn among the upper class of turn-of-the-century New York, touching upon the insidious effects of social convention and the sexual and financial aggression to which free spirited women exposed