The House of Mirth

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of Wharton's generation. Herself born into Old New York Society, Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by new codes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling the story of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts the age-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways that transform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting modern document of cultural anthropology.

ISBN 0199538107   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780199538102 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 259 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192835796 Publication date 13 Nov 2008   Height (mm) 195 Library of Congress 2009290458   Width (mm) 128 DEWEY 813.52   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General Pages 368   Alternative ISBN 9781601360748

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