by Edith Wharton · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447334483
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The House of Mirth is a novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1905. The story narrates the personal drama of a woman in New York's high society at the beginning of the 20th century. Lily Bart, a beautiful and witty woman, is accepted by high society and courted by the nouveau riche. However, as she approaches thirty, her position becomes precarious. She needs a husband to maintain her social status and the luxury she is accustomed to, but something prevents her from making a suitable choice.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
