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Signet
February 2000
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Featuring: Lily Bart
350 pages ISBN: 0451527569 EAN: 9780451527561 Paperback (reprint)
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"A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only
through what its frivolity destroys."--Edith Wharton Lily Bart knows that she must marry--her expensive tastes
and mounting debts demand it--and, at twenty-nine, she has
every artful wile at her disposal to secure that end. But
attached as she is to the social world of her wealthy
suitors, something in her rebels against the insipid men
whom circumstances compel her to charm. "Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily
muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all
afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, "on the
bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of
boring her for life?" Lily is distracted from her prey by
the arrival of Lawrence Selden, handsome, quick-witted, and
penniless. A runaway bestseller on publication in 1905, The House of
Mirth is a brilliant romantic novel of manners, the book
that established Edith Wharton as one of America's greatest
novelists.
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