01431cam a2200289 i 4500 283095490 TxAuBib 20050202120000.0 050202s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 86-31684 9780684842202 $20.00 0684842203 $20.00 TxAuBib rda Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. The House of Mirth / Edith Wharton. 1st Scribner Classics ed. New York, NY : Scribner Classics, 1997. 332 p : hardbound. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A literary sensation when it was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905, "The House of Mirth" quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of her heartless society in which ultimately, she has no part. 20050202. New York (N.Y) Social life and customs 19th century Fiction. Young women New York (State) New York Fiction. Upper class New York (State) New York Fiction.