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This is a black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City - people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, age twenty-nine, seeks a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and all the trappings of wealth. But her quest comes to a scandalous end when she is accused of being the mistress of a wealthy man. Exiled from her familiar world of artificial conventions, Lily finds life impossible.
| ISBN | 0140187294 | | Pages | 368 | | ISBN13 | 9780140187298
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 256 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. | | Publication date | 25 Nov 1993 | | Height (mm) | 196 | | Writer of introduction | Cynthia Griffin Wolff | | Width (mm) | 128 | | Library of Congress | PS3545.H16 | | Spine width (mm) | 16 | | DEWEY | 813.52 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Alternative ISBN | 9781601360748 |
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