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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393959015

ISBN-139780393959017

eBay Product ID (ePID)13393

Product Key Features

Book TitleHouse of Mirth

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, General, Literary

Publication Year1990

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorEdith Wharton

Book SeriesNorton Critical Editions Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight13.2 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN89-033794

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number0

Dewey Decimal813/.52

SynopsisThe text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the editor for student readers. Backgrounds and Contexts includes selections from Edith Wharton's letters; articles from the period about etiquette, vocations for women, factory life, and Working Girls' Clubs; excerpts from the work of contemporary social thinkers including Thorstein Veblen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Olive Schreiner; and a consideration of anti-Semitism at the turn of the century by historian John Higham. Also included are Charles Dana Gibson's precautionary piece " Marrying for Money " (including four Gibson drawings) and a tableau vivant of " The Dying Gladiator ." Criticism reprints six central contemporary reviews of the novel and six biographical and interpretive modern essays by Millicent Bell, Louis Auchincloss, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, R. W. B. Lewis, Elaine Showalter, and Elizabeth Ammons. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included., This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's quintessential novel of the Gilded Age reprints the Scribner's magazine text of 1905, including the eight original illustrations., The text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the editor for student readers. Backgrounds and Contexts includes selections from Edith Wharton's letters; articles from the period about etiquette, vocations for women, factory life, and Working Girls' Clubs; excerpts from the work of contemporary social thinkers including Thorstein Veblen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Olive Schreiner; and a consideration of anti-Semitism at the turn of the century by historian John Higham. Also included are Charles Dana Gibson's precautionary piece "Marrying for Money" (including four Gibson drawings) and a tableau vivant of "The Dying Gladiator." Criticism reprints six central contemporary reviews of the novel and six biographical and interpretive modern essays by Millicent Bell, Louis Auchincloss, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, R. W. B. Lewis, Elaine Showalter, and Elizabeth Ammons. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

LC Classification NumberPS3545.H16H68 1990b