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The House of Mirth
by Wharton, Edith
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Creators: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) "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. Wharton crafts a sharp tragedy that exposes the moral corruption of an irresponsible upper class that casually destroys what is most beautiful within it. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 67.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 4045