The house of mirth / Edith Wharton ; introduction and notes by Janet Beer
By: Wharton, Edith [autor].
Contributor(s): Beer, Janet [Escritor de introducción].
Series: Wordsworth Classics.London : Wordsworth editions, 2002Edition: First edition.Description: 294 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: texto Media type: no mediado Carrier type: volumenISBN: 9781840224191.Subject(s): American novel | American literatureDDC classification: 813 / Summary: The house of mirth tells the story of Lily Brt, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits -her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money. Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too lomg. Wharton charts the course of Lily´s life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Libros | Biblioteca Idiomas - Neiva | General | 813 / W553h (Browse shelf) | Ej. 1 | Available | 900000016842 |
The house of mirth tells the story of Lily Brt, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits -her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money. Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too lomg. Wharton charts the course of Lily´s life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.
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