The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Hermione Lee

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton, Hermione Lee

400 pages first pub 1905 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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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. Unwillin...

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