"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton is a surprisingly raw tale of an independent woman and her descent into desperation and public humiliation. It is a poisonous portrayal of a woman's complete helplessness in a class society. While I found the novel to be perfectly clear on its subject and its mo...
5 Stars. Click for review.I apologize because I recognize that it is annoying to have to go to someone's blog to find their review. I made this decision because, unfortunately, Goodreads has made certain decisions about deleting user review content with which I very much disagree. I am not intereste...
Beautifully written, compelling, deeply disturbing examination of late 19th-/early 20th-century New York society through the far from satisfactory life trajectory of Miss Lily Bart. Haunting and sad, almost willful in its determination to keep Lily from resolving her problems until one final, shatte...
I did not expect when I opened House of Mirth that I was embarking on a classical tragedy, complete with a misguided heroine, an easily swayed hero, a wicked witch, a good bit of wrong time, wrong place, and a whole lot of poor judgment, all placed in a corrupt setting. Change the language a bit an...
I read the House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence almost at the same time, and while The Age of Innocence is the better book -the title is less euphonic, mind- House of Mirth has meant something to me. I've declared in another review my undying love for fools, whatever their size or shape. Lily is ...
This will end up being a review of The House of Mirth, sort of.“Wasn’t she too beautiful, Lawrence? Don’t you like her best in that simple dress? It makes her look like the real Lily – the Lily I know.” p.142Let’s begin with rich, beautiful people. I am neither, and I come from a long line of neith...
The House of Mirth is a “novel of manners” or a novel which focuses on social customs, often the customs surrounding marriage (think Jane Austen, for example). This particular novel focuses on high society in New York during the early 1900′s, a setting very familiar to the author, and was intende...
Have any of you made mistakesWhich had high moral stakesAnd brought you all asunder,For a small initial blunder?That is the fate of Lily Bart,Damned and fated from the start.In a world of glitz and glamour,Her purse need find l'amour,To feed her need for fancy dress,Of muslin, none but finest press,...
First sentence: "Selden paused in surprise."P. 99: "The stir of the pulses which his nearness always ????? was increased by a slight sense of constraint."Last sentence: "He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the wo...
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