A literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905, "The House of Mirth" quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of a heartless society in which, ultimately, she has no part.
- ISBN10 1570421102
- ISBN13 9781570421105
- Publish Date 1 August 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Warner Books
- Edition Abridged edition
- Format Audiobook
- Language English