Name: The House of Mirth: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
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Author: Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9781847498793

portada The House of Mirth: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Alma Books

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781847498793

Synopsis "The House of Mirth: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)"

An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she contracts at the card table, her reduced circumstances and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after suitor appears and fades away, and she is drawn further and further down a spiral of loneliness and unhappiness, she realizes that she is just one step away from losing everything she has.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton nació en Nueva York en 1862. Su nombre de soltera era Edith Newbold Jones. Su familia era de clase alta, comparable a la aristocracia europea, y consecuentemente recibió una esmerada educación privada. En 1907 se estableció en Francia, donde se convirtió en discípula y amiga de Henry James. Su obra más conocida es La edad de la inocencia, publicada en 1920 y ganadora del premio Pulitzer en 1921. Está considerada la más genial novelista americana de su generación, admirada por intelectuales de la talla de Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau y Ernest Hemingway.

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