The House of Mirth
About this book
Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world.
Subjects
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- classes sociales
- classic literature
- drama
- femmes seules
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, romance, general
- long now manual for civilization
- manners and customs
- married people
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- open_syllabus_project
- rich people
- roman
- romans, nouvelles
- separated women
- single women
- single women, fiction
- social classes
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- social norms
- social status
- social values
- theater, united states, history
- triangles (interpersonal relations)
- upper class
- wharton, edith, 1862-1937
- women
- young women