The house of mirth pdf download

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The House of Mirth (), is a novel by Edith Wharton. First published in , the novel is Wharton's first important work of fiction, sold , copies between October and the end of December, and added to Wharton's existing fortune. Although The House of Mirth is written in the style of a novel of manners, set against the backdrop of the s New York ruling class, it is a text considered to be part of American literary Naturalism. Wharton places her tragic heroine, Lily Bart, in a society that she describes as a "hot-house of traditions and conventions.

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  The Touchstone is a novella written by Edith Wharton. It was published in and was her first published novella. Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart

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  SummerHumanities and Arts by Edith Wharton

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  Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton published in by Charles Scribner's Sons. The story is one of only two novels to be set in New England by Wharton, who

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