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Book Review of The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton
Book Type: Paperback
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A scathing portrait of fashionable New York society at the turn of the last century. Lily Bart, the novel's central character,allows numerous marriage opportunities to slip from her grasp due to painful errors and impulses of the heart.