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   The House of Mirth. 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. [a] The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a lonely existence on the margins of society.

   • Author: Edith Wharton

   • Publish Year: 1905

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3. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton | Goodreads

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   The House of Mirth is a deeply pessimistic story—it’s basically Pretty Woman in reverse—but it is still incredibly enjoyable to read thanks to Wharton’s elegant, refined prose and her ethnographic attention to detail in depicting New York’s fashionable upper crust of ~1905 (including a taste for electric cars!) But most of all, thanks to the psychological depth and complexity of Lily ...

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   • Format: Paperback

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   Oct 13, 2000 · A romantic drama based on Edith Wharton's novel about a socialite who risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she loves. Starring Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Laura Linney and Eric Stoltz, directed by Terence Davies.

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   • Genre: Romance, Drama

   • Director: Terence Davies
   • Release Date: 2000-10-13

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6. www.litcharts.com › lit › the-house-of-mirthThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Plot Summary | LitCharts

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   A summary of the plot and themes of The House of Mirth, a novel by Edith Wharton about Lily Bart, a young woman who struggles to maintain her social status in New York. The summary covers the first book of the novel, which depicts Lily's efforts to marry a rich man and her relationship with Lawrence Selden.

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   LitCharts offers a comprehensive analysis of Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth, a classic of the "novel of manners" genre. Find summaries, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more.

8. www.gutenberg.org › files › 284The house of Mirth, by Edith Wharton—A Project Gutenberg eBook

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   Jun 1, 1995 · A house in which no one ever dined at home unless there was “company”; a door-bell perpetually ringing; a hall-table showered with square envelopes which were opened in haste, and oblong envelopes which were allowed to gather dust in the depths of a bronze jar; a series of French and English maids giving warning amid a chaos of hurriedly-ransacked wardrobes and dress-closets; an equally ...

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   • Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) and, later, The Age of Innocence (1920) belong to a category of novels known as the “novel of manners.”

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   Is the House of Mirth a case book?

   • When describing it in her introduction to Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Case Book, Carol Singley states that the novel "is a unique blend of romance, realism, and naturalism, [and thus] transcends the narrow classification of a novel of manners."

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    The House of Mirth, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1905. The story concerns the tragic fate of the beautiful and well-connected but penniless Lily Bart, who at age 29 lacks a husband to secure her position in society. Maneuvering to correct this situation, she encounters both Simon Rosedale,