
The House of Mirth : Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
by Edith Wharton
Title:
The House of Mirth : Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Author:
Edith Wharton
Series (if any):
Alma Classics Evergreens
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
320 pages
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
ISBN-13:
9781847498793
EAN:
9781847498793
Classifications:
Classic and Biographical
Weight (g):
404
Dimensions (mm):
197 x 128 x 25
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she contracts at the card table, her reduced circumstances and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after suitor appears and fades away, and she is drawn further and further down a spiral of loneliness and unhappiness, she realizes that she is just one step away from losing everything she has.






























