The House of Mirth [hardcover] Edith Wharton
A bestseller when it was originally published nearly a century ago, Wharton’s first literary success was set amid the previously unexplored territory of fashionable, turn-of-the-century New York society, an area with which she was intimately familiar. The tragic love story reveals the destructive effects of wealth and social hypocrisy on Lily Bart, a ravishing beauty.
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