The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New ...

Terence Davies' The House of Mirth is a tragic love story set against a background of wealth and social hypocrisy in turn of the century New York.

Read 6415 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly ch…

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among ...

The House of Mirth is a 2000 drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. An adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth, the film ...

2 feb 2023 · Ruling the turbulent element called home was the vigorous and determined figure of a mother still young enough to dance her ball-dresses to rags ...

11 gen 2020 · Set in the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, with a widening income gap comparable to our own, The House of Mirth is a relevant and ...

Wharton's novel is alternately described as a satire of New York City's wealthy and a tragedy about a physically attractive woman whose beauty causes men to ...

Impoverished but well-born, the beautiful and beguiling Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. But with her romantic ...