The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.

• Autor: Edith Wharton
• Wydawnictwo Wordsworth
• Seria Wordsworth Classics
• Ilość stron: 299
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Rok wydania: 2020
• Stan: nowy, pełnowartościowy produkt
• Model: 9781840224191
• ISBN: 9781840224191
• EAN: 9781840224191
• Język: angielski
• Wymiary: 12.5x19.5x1.5 cm