by Edith Wharton · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447361274
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Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by 'old money' and courted by the nouveaux riches in New York high society. However, her precarious financial situation and her refusal to marry solely for money lead her into a downward spiral of social exclusion and tragic consequences. A sharp critique of the constraints placed upon women in the Gilded Age.
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.
