The House of Mirth
By Edith Wharton; Mary Gordon (Introduction by)
(Library of America, Paperback, 9781598530551, 371pp.)
Publication Date: July 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Mass Market Paperback
Categories: Classics
 |     |
Description
?If there is a more highly regarded female American author of the twentieth century, her name doesn?t readily come to mind.?
--John Updike
Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society?against whose rigid mores she often rebelled?Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. "The House of Mirth" (1905), her tenth book, is the story of young Lily Bart and her tragic sojourn among the upper class of turn-of-the- century New York, touching upon the insidious effects of social convention and the sexual and financial aggression to which free-spirited women were exposed. ?A frivolous society, ? Wharton wrote, ?can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.?
Library of America Paperback Classics feature authoritative texts drawn from the acclaimed Library of America series and introduced by today's most distinguished scholars and writers. Each book features a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, and essay on the choice of the text, and notes.
The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from "Edith Wharton: Novels," volume number 30 in the Library of America series. It is joined in the series by three companion volumes, gathering novellas, short stories, and other writing by Edith Wharton.
--John Updike
Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society?against whose rigid mores she often rebelled?Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. "The House of Mirth" (1905), her tenth book, is the story of young Lily Bart and her tragic sojourn among the upper class of turn-of-the- century New York, touching upon the insidious effects of social convention and the sexual and financial aggression to which free-spirited women were exposed. ?A frivolous society, ? Wharton wrote, ?can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.?
Library of America Paperback Classics feature authoritative texts drawn from the acclaimed Library of America series and introduced by today's most distinguished scholars and writers. Each book features a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, and essay on the choice of the text, and notes.
The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from "Edith Wharton: Novels," volume number 30 in the Library of America series. It is joined in the series by three companion volumes, gathering novellas, short stories, and other writing by Edith Wharton.
 |
1Q84 Haruki Murakami Knopf |
 |
The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
 |
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Knopf |
 |
Death Comes to Pemberley PD James Knopf |
