The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton · first published 1905
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Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world.
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Coincidentally there is literally the novel "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton - published in 1905, it's an excellent late-Victorian/Gilded-Age period novel about the slow downfall of Lily Bart, a woman who was in New York's high society, then through a series…
on “Always go to the funeral (2005)” ↗Brett Easton Ellis recommended Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, so I read it, just finished it -- devoured it, really -- and fully agree w/ his assessment [1]. [1] I just finished reading The House of Mirth, which I had tried reading as an eighteen- year-old college…
on “Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?” ↗