Fiction · 1905
The House of Mirth
Lily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful, well connected and poor, with perhaps two seasons left in which to marry the money her life requires. Every choice she makes to keep a little of her freedom costs her a little of her position, and New York society keeps exact accounts.
Edith Wharton serialised the novel in Scribner’s Magazine and published it in 1905. It was her first great success and remains the coldest and most precise thing she wrote about the world she was born into.
Wharton lets the arithmetic do the work: a bridge debt, a loan accepted from the wrong man, a letter not destroyed — and a woman who is never once offered a choice that is not already a trap. Both books are given complete.
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1862–1937 · Modern
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