{"product_id":"9780140187298","title":"The House of Mirth","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eMore a tale of social exclusion than of failed love, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e, this novel was also made into a successful motion picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Edith Wharton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45472285720736,"sku":"9780140187298","price":6.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Trade size Paperback","offer_id":52333110395040,"sku":"9780486420493","price":6.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_45135012-fa3a-4bb3-a6bb-7c578a675bac.jpg?v=1732171402","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780140187298","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}