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The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

Editorial: Alma Books LTD

Pàgines: 308

Any: 2022

EAN: 9781847498793

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Sobre el libro The House of Mirth de Edith Wharton publicado por Alma Books LTD al 2022:

An impoverished member of the privileged Old New York society, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, yet she has almost reached the age of thirty - a dangerous threshold for a young woman - and is still unmarried. Now she is desperate to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status in society, but her penchant for gambling at cards, her reduced circumstances, her determination to marry for love and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and her constant social faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after suitor appears and fades away, and she is drawn further and further down into a spiral of debt and unhappiness, she realizes that she is just one step away from losing everything she has. Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, The House of Mirth is perhaps Edith Wharton´s most popular work - a brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought by the Gilded Age which transcends the novel of manners, as well as a universal satire on the constraints and follies of upper-crust conventions...
Edith Wharton

Sobre Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) va néixer a Nova York, en el si d´una família adinerada i distingida, i és considerada una de les més grans escriptores estatunidenques. "La edad de la inocencia" va ser portada a la pantalla per Martin Scorsese en 1993, protagonitzada per Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer i Winona Ryder. Altres obres de l´autora en Alianza Editorial: "Estío", "Ethan Frome" i "Las hermanas Bunner".

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