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ID: 624020
Title: House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton
Narrator: Anna Fields
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:44:57
Language: English
Release date: 01-01-06
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics
Summary:
Set among the elegant brownstones and opulent country houses of turn-of-the-century upper-class New York, Edith Whartons first great novel is a precise, satiric portrayal of what the author herself called a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers.
Her brilliantly complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and dependence on marriage for economic survival reduce her to a decorative object, is an incisive commentary on the status of women in that society. Lily is all too much a product of the world indicated by the title, a phrase taken from Ecclesiastes: The heart of fools is in the house of mirth. From her tragic attraction to bachelor lawyer Lawrence Seldon to her desperate relationship with the social-climbing Rosedale, it is Lilys very specialness that threatens the fulfillment she seeks in life.
Time after time, Lily fails to make the ultimate move, to abandon the possibility of a greater love and enter into a mercenary union. This masterful novel from one of literatures greatest voices is a tragedy of money, morality, and missed opportunity.
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