The House of Mirth

Name: The House of Mirth
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group : Penguin Classics / Vintage / Penguin Classics / Vintage Classics / Everyman
SKU: 9780140187298-PRUKDTR-UK
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English • Age Adult - Adult

368 pages • 5.08 x 7.71 x 0.63 in

Approx. weight: 0.55 lb

Publication date: 01 May,1993

Barcode: 9780140187298 • Penguin Publishing Group : Penguin Classics / Vintage / Penguin Classics / Vintage Classics / Everyman

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By: Edith Wharton

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City – people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, age twenty-nine, seeks a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and all the trappings of wealth. But her quest comes to a scandalous end when she is accused of being the mistress of a wealthy man. Exiled from her familiar world of artificial conventions, Lily finds life impossible.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.