Society

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

Lily Bart is beautiful, twenty-nine, unmarried and running out of money, in a society that values only the first and last of those. Wharton follows her with great sympathy and no mercy at all. It is as sharp about money as anything by Balzac.

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Reading time

About 8 hr 45 min

Where to find it

On the Society shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #284. In the public domain in the United States.