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The House of Mirth

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New York
Kiadó: New American Library
Kiadás helye: New York
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 350 oldal
Sorozatcím: Signet Classic
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 18 cm x 11 cm
ISBN: 0-451-52362-8
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Signet Classic
EDITH WHARIDÎ^
The House
of Mrth
The House of Mirth stands as the work that first established Edith Wharton's eminent literary reputation. In it she discovered her major subject: the fashionable New York society in which she had been raised, whose power to debase both people and ideals forms the dramatic core of this finely wrought novel. Its heroine, Lily Bart, the poor relation of a wealthy woman, is beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted
to the pleasures of a moneyed world of luxury and grace. But, ironically, her delicacy of taste and moral sensibility—qualities representing the ideal goals of that world—render her unfit for survival in it. As she struggles to maintain her tenuous position, she is helpless against the vulgarity and greed that form the true foundations of the glittering social edifice; the society that has created her commences
ruthlessly to destroy hen A brilliant portrayal of both human frailty and nobility, and a bitter attack... Tovább

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Signet Classic
EDITH WHARIDÎ^
The House
of Mrth
The House of Mirth stands as the work that first established Edith Wharton's eminent literary reputation. In it she discovered her major subject: the fashionable New York society in which she had been raised, whose power to debase both people and ideals forms the dramatic core of this finely wrought novel. Its heroine, Lily Bart, the poor relation of a wealthy woman, is beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted
to the pleasures of a moneyed world of luxury and grace. But, ironically, her delicacy of taste and moral sensibility—qualities representing the ideal goals of that world—render her unfit for survival in it. As she struggles to maintain her tenuous position, she is helpless against the vulgarity and greed that form the true foundations of the glittering social edifice; the society that has created her commences
ruthlessly to destroy hen A brilliant portrayal of both human frailty and nobility, and a bitter attack on false social values, The House of Mirth has been termed by Louis Auchincloss as "uniquely authentic among American novels of manners."
With an Afterword by Louis Auchincloss Vissza

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