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The House of Mirth: The Penguin English Library

Autor Edith Wharton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 2012
The Penguin English Library Edition ofThe House of Mirthby Edith Wharton

'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'

A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world,The House of Mirthsees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York but reluctant to finally commit herself to a husband. In her search for freedom and the happiness she feels she deserves, Lily is ultimately ruined by scandal.
Edith Wharton's shattering novel created controversy on its publication in 1905 with its scathing portrayal of the world's wealthy and the prison that marriage can become.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141199023
ISBN-10: 0141199024
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria The Penguin English Library

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Edith Newbold Jones (Edith Wharton) (1862-1937) was born in New York City during the American Civil War. She enjoyed a diverse and very successful career as interior and garden designer, short story writer and award-winning novelist. It wasThe House of Mirth, published in 1905, that made Wharton famous, and in 1921 she became the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Her great novellaEthan Fromeis also published in the Penguin English Library.

Descriere

It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'. A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, "The House of Mirth" sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York but reluctant to finally commit herself to a husband. In her search for freedom and the happiness she feels she deserves, Lily is ultimately ruined by scandal.

Recenzii

"Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that you're rarely aware as they purl by that the sentences are so pretty...I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done. But 100 years ago, Edith Wharton's drive, independence, wilfulness and autodidactic mastery of the English language were extraordinary, and I bashfully claim her as a kindred spirit" -- Lionel Shriver Guardian "A cautionary tale of social disaster, told with wit and elan" Independent "Like Henry James, Wharton has a wonderful gift of revealing the inner life of her characters while also documenting the elegance and hypocrisy of high society...the accumulation of desolation in the final three chapters reduces me to tears" -- Jonathan Bate Sunday Telegraph "[Edith Wharton was] an ambitious, brilliant and industrious woman who created "her own personal and professional revolution" Sunday Times "Edith Wharton's 1905 novel gave literature one of its most complicated tragic heroines" Independent

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