The House of Mirth
A Fiction, Literature, Historical book. He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its...
A literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the...
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Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth // As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth // He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth //
Beautifully written. Good literature never gets outdated. i loved the Interesting time in American / New York city / in female history. Mrs. Lloyd by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1775) In our imperfectly organized society there is no provision as yet for the young woman who claims the privileges of marriage without assuming its obligations. Oh, how I delighted in this book. How I bathed in the world Edith Wharton created, this world belonging to beautiful Lily Bart, as she... So depressing I had to read two Nancy Drew mysteries afterward to cheer up. This is Edith Whartons other masterpiece, a Gilded Age tragedy of the beautiful and charming Lily Bart, who is trained only to be an ornamental wife a big problem if you care who you marry and youre dependent on relatives for money. Although essentially honorable,...
