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The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

出版	Broadview Press, 2005
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=emvczQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"One of Edith Wharton's most accomplished social satires, this novel tells the story of the beautiful but impoverished New York socialite Lily Bart, whose refusal to compromise in her search for a husband leads to her exclusion from polite society. In charting the course of Lily's life and downfall, Wharton also provides a wider picture of a society in transition, a milieu in which old certainties, manners, and morals no longer hold true, and where the individual has become an expendable commodity." "This classic American novel is now available in a Broadview edition that includes a critical introduction and a selection of contextual documents. Appendices include Wharton's correspondence about The House of Mirth, contemporary articles on social mores, etiquette, and dress, and related writings by Henry James, Thorstein Veblen, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman."--Résumé de l'éditeur