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The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton
Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 368 pages
★ 7.0 editorial score

Lily Bart is beautiful, twenty-nine, and unmarried, which in Old New York is a countdown. Wharton tracks her slide from ballroom to boarding house without once softening the arithmetic.

Medium
Novel
Time
1905Depicts Gilded Age (US)Depicts 1900s

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