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An American author and Pulitzer Prize winner, EDITH WHARTON, is known for her ironic and polished prose about the aristocratic New York society. Her protagonists are most often tragic heroes, portrayed as emotional people. Wharton’s protagonists challenge social taboos, but are unable to overcome the barriers of social convention. From the beginning of her life, she was immersed in a society noted for its manners, taste, snobbishness, and long list of social do’s and don’ts. She was born on January day, 1862, in New York City. Her family was established, old-money New York business aristocracy. The Jones family frequently took trips to the country and to Europe.

In New York, Lily Bart lives among the receptions of high society, trips abroad and stays in the residences of friends. Through her beauty and intelligence, she moves into a hypocritical environment hoping to find a husband. A strong and contrasted sentiment binds her to Lawrence Selden, a young lawyer. Lily knows that she would never give up the comforts she grew up in and that she was educated to desire, but she can not break away from him. Page after page, you will discover that – the most tragic moment of her life – Lily wears the thickness of rectitude and moral integrity. With a modern and implacable writing in investigating the psyche of its characters, you will discover that The House of Mirth is a novel with perfect narrative architecture, the one that portrays the high society of New York in the early twentieth century, in a context of human splendor and misery strangely current.

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