The House of Mirth

Informationen zum Autor Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth , perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome , The Custom of the Country , Summer and The Age of Innocence . Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937. Klappentext 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 was The 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 novella Ethan Frome is also published in the Penguin English Library. Zusammenfassung 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Edith Wharton
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.04.2012
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780141199023
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119902-3
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.8 cm
• Serie: Penguin Classics; The Penguin English Library; Penguin Classics; Penguin English Library
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