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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788921903321

Autore

Wharton Edith <1862-1937.>

Titolo

The house of mirth / / Edith Wharton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Auckland, New Zealand] : , : The Floating Press, , 1905

2010

ISBN

1-77651-157-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (616 p.)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Single women

New York (N.Y.) Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Contents; BOOK ONE; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; BOOK TWO; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14

Sommario/riassunto

The House of Mirth is an uncompromising depiction of 19th-century New York society. Lily Bart is a society lady who is unwilling to marry for love, but equally unwilling to marry as society dictates. She sabotages every advantageous opportunity she receives, until her society friends begin to hasten her downfall for their own ends.