The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

⏱ 7 minAmerican classic

Beautiful, poor and proud, Lily Bart gambles on a brilliant marriage to keep her place in old New York — and slides, scruple by scruple, toward ruin. Wharton's pitiless tragedy.

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