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The House of Mirth, Hardback Book

The House of Mirth Hardback

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library series

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In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton gives us a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the privileged society of early twentieth-century New York. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers.

These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

This edition features an introduction by novelist Danuta Reah. This is a world that inspired the lavish costume drama The Gilded Age, written by Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey. Lily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble and socializes with the wealthy upper-class families of New York.

But her meagre finances are dwindling and her place in society is slipping away from her.

Her only hope of security is to find a suitable husband.

However, Lily has an independence of spirit that stands in the way of her committing to the available suitors.

As her options diminish, friends become enemies and her situation grows increasingly perilous.

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