![]() The House of Mirth charts the falling fortunes of Lilly Bart, a bright, vivacious upper-class woman raised to be an ornament to society - and more specifically, to a wealthy man. The best place to start with Edith Wharton is with her fourth (and second most famous) novel, The House of Mirth. But a decade later and I’m still going strong, for the same reasons and for more that I’ve discovered as I’ve read and re-read Edith Wharton over the years. ![]() ![]() Her prose is sharp and arch, and her stories depict fierce passion underlying rigid rules and social structures. In retrospect, it’s not surprising that Wharton’s writing resonated so strongly with a teenager. And when I say love, I do mean love: the book made me breathless and knocked me off my feet I sighed over it when I was reading it and yearned for it when I wasn’t and I always liked to keep it on hand wherever I went, just to be near to it. ![]() I was eighteen years old when I first fell in love with Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. ![]()
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