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"The House Of Mirth" 1953 WHARTON, Edith
$75
WHARTON, Edith
[351] pp.
John Lehmann
1953
8 1/8" x 5 5/8"
The drawings on the jacket are by Christopher Cornford
The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society in the 1890s. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a lonely existence on the margins of society. In the words of one scholar, Wharton uses Lily as an attack on "an irresponsible, grasping and morally corrupt upper class."