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In The House of Mirth, Wharton portrays not only the Olympian heights of social glitter but also the wrong side of the “social tapestry”, the lives of the numerous women who suffer that a...
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.
- Edith Wharton
- 1905
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,
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The House of Mirth is a novel of New York Society, the world she never completely discarded though she declared she had given it up. Henry James, while praising the historical reenactments and...
The House of Mirth is a work of social realism that criticizes a very specific world—that of wealthy, nineteenth century New York society—yet it is also much more than that. It is a moral fable...
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth documents the moral bankruptcy of wealthy New York denizens during the waning years of the Gilded Age. This indictment of the culture that metaphorically eats one's own reveals Wharton's opinions of such a society, as well as her views on the economic disparities in New York.
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Historical Context of The House of Mirth. After the American Civil War (1861-1865), the United States experienced rapid economic growth in the North and the West, while the South remained economically devastated and plagued by racist violence.
