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The House of Mirth

Anglais · Livre Relié

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Informationen zum Autor Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War. Klappentext Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Lilly Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble and socialises with the immensely wealthy upper-class families of New York. But her meagre finances are dwindling. Given the restrictions imposed by society, her only hope of financial security is to find a suitable husband. However, Lilly has an independence of spirit which stands in the way of her committing to the suitors available to her. As her options diminish, her friends become her enemies and her situation grows increasing perilous. Through the prism of Lilly's life, Edith Wharton has written a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the over privileged and morally dubious society of early twentieth-century New York. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition has a new introduction by author Danuta Reah. A pocket hardback edition of Edith Wharton's classic novel of New York society. Zusammenfassung A pocket hardback edition of Edith Wharton's classic novel of New York society and its reliance on wealth and status....

Détails du produit

Auteurs Edith Wharton
Collaboration Danuta Reah (Introduction), Reah Danuta (Introduction)
Edition Macmillan
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre Relié
Sortie 31.01.2017
 
EAN 9781909621978
ISBN 978-1-909621-97-8
Pages 464
Dimensions 105 mm x 158 mm x 25 mm
Thèmes Collector's Library
Macmillan Collector's Library
Collector's Library
Macmillan Collector's Library
Collector's Library
Catégories Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Œuvre principale avant 1945

Satire, New York, c 1800 to c 1900, Literary, Satirical, c 1877 to c 1893 (‘The Gilded Age’ in the USA)

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