# The House of Mirth

by [Edith Wharton](https://localbooks.app/authors/edith-wharton)

- Genres: [Narrativa letteraria](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/literary-fiction)
- Set in: [New York, Stato di New York, Stati Uniti](https://localbooks.app/places/us/new-york/new-york-city)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1905
- Pages: 348

## Description

Lily Bart is beautiful, charming and twenty-nine, with expensive tastes and almost no money. She needs to marry well, but she keeps sabotaging her own chances, in New York society around 1900.

## Where to buy

- [Open Library (ebook)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98587W)
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