The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

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作者: Edith Wharton,Elizabeth Hardwick 著

出版社: Random House Publishing Group

出版时间: 1999-08

ISBN: 9780375753756

定价: 74.40

装帧: 平装

开本: 其他

页数: 368页

正文语种: 英语

丛书: Modern Library 100 Best Novels

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeIn The House of Mirth， Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit， even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.

The beautiful， much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class， but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money， her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals. As Lily spirals down into debt and dishonor， her story takes on the resonance of classic tragedy. One of Wharton's most bracing and nuanced portraits of the life of women in a hostile， highly ordered world， The House of Mirth exposes the truths about American high society that its denizens most wished to deny. With an introduction by Pamela Knights. The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist.  Educated by tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career: marriage.  But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an emotional disappointment, if not a disaster.  She suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894.  In spite of the strain of her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889.

Her first published book was a guide to interior decorating, but this was followed by several novels and story collections.  They were written while the Whartons lived in Newport and New York, traveled in Europe, and built their grand home, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts.  In Europe, she met Henry James, who became her good friend, traveling companion, and the sternest but most careful critic of her fiction.  The House of Mirth (1905) was both a resounding critical success and a bestseller, as was Ethan Frome (1911).  In 1913 the Whartons were divorced, and Edith took up permanent residence in France.  Her subject, however, remained America, especially the moneyed New York of her youth. Her great satiric novel, The Custom of the Country was published in 1913 and The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.

In her later years, she enjoyed the admiration of a new generation of writers, including Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald.  In all, she wrote some thirty books, including an autobiography.  A Backwards Glance (1934). She died at her villa near Paris in 1937.

From the Paperback edition.,,,
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeIn The House of Mirth， Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit， even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.

The beautiful， much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class， but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money， her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals. As Lily spirals down into debt and dishonor， her story takes on the resonance of classic tragedy. One of Wharton's most bracing and nuanced portraits of the life of women in a hostile， highly ordered world， The House of Mirth exposes the truths about American high society that its denizens most wished to deny. With an introduction by Pamela Knights.
作者简介:
The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist.  Educated by tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career: marriage.  But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an emotional disappointment, if not a disaster.  She suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894.  In spite of the strain of her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889.

Her first published book was a guide to interior decorating, but this was followed by several novels and story collections.  They were written while the Whartons lived in Newport and New York, traveled in Europe, and built their grand home, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts.  In Europe, she met Henry James, who became her good friend, traveling companion, and the sternest but most careful critic of her fiction.  The House of Mirth (1905) was both a resounding critical success and a bestseller, as was Ethan Frome (1911).  In 1913 the Whartons were divorced, and Edith took up permanent residence in France.  Her subject, however, remained America, especially the moneyed New York of her youth. Her great satiric novel, The Custom of the Country was published in 1913 and The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.

In her later years, she enjoyed the admiration of a new generation of writers, including Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald.  In all, she wrote some thirty books, including an autobiography.  A Backwards Glance (1934). She died at her villa near Paris in 1937.

From the Paperback edition.,,,

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