# The House of Mirth

By Edith Wharton.

"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton is a novel published in 1905. It follows Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished woman navigating New York City's high society in the 1890s. As twenty-nine-year-old Lily seeks a husband to secure her future, she faces a slow two-year social descent from privilege toward the margins of society. Wharton crafts a sharp tragedy that exposes the moral corruption of an irresponsible upper class that casually destroys what is most beautiful within it. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Single women -- Fiction; Social classes -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [House of Mirth](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/1467) by Edith Wharton (12 h 33 min, English)
- [House of Mirth (Version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/3976) by Edith Wharton (14 h 9 min, English)
- [House of Mirth (Version 3)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/8799) by Edith Wharton (12 h 56 min, English)

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