The House of Mirth
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"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton is a novel published in 1905. It follows Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished woman navigating New York City's high society in the 1890s. As twenty-nine-year-old Lily seeks a husband to secure her future, she faces a slow two-year social descent from privilege toward the margins of society.
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Topics: New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction · Psychological fiction · Single women -- Fiction · Social classes -- Fiction
