Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a distinguished New York family and was educated privately in the United States and abroad. Among her best-known work is Ethan Frome (1911), which is considered her greatest tragic story, The House of Mirth ... [... more]
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The House of Mirth
 Sumptuous: This is not a book to be rushed through, rather a book to be savoured, like a delicious indulgence. The language and the story are both superb. Illuminating a sometimes cruel world of wealth and luxury, The House of Mirth, is one of my all [... more]
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The Custom of the Country
What customs: Few social climbers are as surreally despicable as Edith Wharton's Undine Spragg, who doesn't care what happens to anyone else as long as she can shop and party. And "The Custom of the Country" is the perfect example of what such [... more]
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20th Century Age Of Innocence
From Amazon.com: Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The [... more]
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American Fictions
Wonderful and difficult...: This book contains 27 of Hardwick's literary critical essays--and they are gems. The essays are arranged in themes (e.g., "Old New York," "Victims and Victors") around particular authors (e.g., Edith [... more]
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The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9781551115672 ISBN: 1551115670 Number Of Pages: 483 Publication Date: 2005-09-12 [... more]
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House Of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9781844082933 ISBN: 1844082938 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2006-05-30 [... more]
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The House of Mirth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
The House of Typos: I'm not going to comment on the novel itself here. I'm just wondering whether they have proofreaders up at Barnes & Noble Classics. I love the return of inexpensive mass paperback editions of classic literature, but you shouldn't [... more]
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The House of Mirth
From Amazon.com: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the [... more]
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Signet Classics House Of Mirth
From Amazon.com: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the [... more]
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The House of Mirth (Widescreen)
Disappointing: It doesn't seem to matter how good a story is, and The house of Mirth is good, casting the right players makes the difference between great and dismal. Dan Akroyd seems to be reading his lines off a nearby wall. Gillian Anderson is [... more]
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House Of Mirth B
From Amazon.com: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the [... more]
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