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The House of Mirth
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Edith Wharton's *The House of Mirth* follows Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished woman navigating New York high society at the turn of the twentieth century as she seeks a secure marriage. Readers interested in American literature, social satire, or Gilded Age fiction will find it rewarding.
One correction: the "first published: 1995" date is inaccurate. This novel was originally published in 1905; 1995 is likely a later edition or reprint.
Edith Wharton
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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