![]() ![]() The House of Mirth was an instant bestseller, much to Wharton’s surprise, as up to that time, she felt quite insecure about her ability to write and was worried that she wouldn’t be taken seriously. Her troubling decline was seen as a commentary on a corrupt and heartless upper class. The story is of her downward spiral over the course of about two years. In those times, that was nothing less than tragic. Lily Bart is well-bred but has no money, and at age twenty-nine, is closing in on permanent spinsterhood. Published in 1905, The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, an ambitious woman of New York City’s high society at the turn of the twentieth century. Her first book of stories, The Greater Inclination, was published in 1899. The House of Mirth was the first novel by Edith Wharton. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |