Tempo di lettura stimato:
10h 36m
Narrativa classica: generale e letteraria
Editore: Giunti
Anno: 2003
Lingua: Inglese
Rilegatura: Non inserito
Pagine: 318 Pagine
Isbn 10: 8809020960
Isbn 13: 9788809020962
A bestseller when it was originally published nearly a century ago,
Wharton's first literary success was set amid the previously unexplored
territory of fashionable, turn-of-the-century New York society, an area
with which she was intimately familiar.
The tragic love story reveals
the destructive effects of wealth and social hypocrisy on Lily Bart, a
ravishing beauty. Impoverished but well-born, Lily realizes a secure
future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. Her downfall begins
with a romantic indiscretion, intensifies with an accumulation of
gambling debts, and climaxes in a maelstrom of social disasters.
More a tale of social exclusion than of failed love, The House of Mirth
reveals Wharton's compelling gifts as a storyteller and her clear-eyed
observations of the savagery beneath the well-bred surface of high
society. As with The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome, this novel was also made into a successful motion picture.
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