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Edith Whartons The House of Mirth 1905 is a penetrating novel of manners that follows Lily Bart a beautiful but financially vulnerable woman navigating New Yorks upper-class society Wharton exposes a social order in which marriage reputation and material display determine a womans prospects while portraying Lilys intelligence and aesthetic sensibility as both resources and liabilities The novels elegant realism finely controlled irony and psychol...Seguir leyendo