The House of Mirth

Title: The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton
Fiction: 1693351
ISBN: 9780140187298
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1993
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Section: Fiction | Classics
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: A literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905, "The House of Mirth" quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of a heartless society in which, ultimately, she has no part.