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    <body><![CDATA[Lily Bart, the protagonist of Edith Wharton's stunning first novel, is introduced to the reader as a young woman traveling within high society. While her blood and wealth may place her on the fringe of that society, her &quot;pale&quot; beauty (as it is continuously characterized throughout the nove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9547110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has inspired my next tattoo. That is some fine literature. (And I am sure that if Edith Wharton were alive today, she would appreciate the tribute.)<br/><br/>I have this theory that the mark of great literature is that no matter how many times you read it, you can always plausibly hope, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11208906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book earlier in the year, but couldn't really get into it.  As it turns out, the book gets really interesting at about the exact same place I stopped reading before.  I'd recommend this book for all of the &quot;Jane Austen Haters&quot; out there (and I keep stumbling onto them for so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4655837">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I need to clarify here.  Did I love it?  No.  Would I read it again.  Probably.  Would I recommend it to others?  Probably.  Did I recognize that it was beautifully written?  Of course.  The nuances of every thought, every move were so beautifully told.  Do I realize the important part the book play...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18914870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love books about people who perish for staying true to their principles, regardless of what these principles are. I also love books which make me wonder what I would have done in the hero/heroine's situation -- whether I would have given in to temptation or let my better self prevail. So I love Ed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15581174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I completely soured on this by the end of Book I and start of Book II. I really don't want to finish it, but I might when in a better mood. The melodrama of Gus Trenor's attempt on Lily's virtue and of Lily's flight to Gerty really disgusted me; that's not the Wharton I like, the lofty and relentles...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4735417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So depressing I had to read two Nancy Drew mysteries afterward to cheer up. This is Edith Wharton’s other masterpiece, a Gilded Age tragedy of the beautiful and charming Lily Bart, who is trained only to be an ornamental wife — a big problem if you care who you marry and you’re dependent on re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20728474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[9/26: An introduction and a few pages in, and already one should knows whether they will love it or hate it; I am of the former. What wit!<br/><br/>9/27: Indeed, sarcasm begins with Edith. Hilarious! It makes one wonder how many people actually read her work thinking she was somehow in favor of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4754363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book.  I remember really enjoying Ethan Frome in High School, and, while I haven't read The Age of Innocence, I love the film, which gives such wonderful life to Wharton's words.  When I started reading The House of Mirth, I kept hearing the narration in the voice of the Narr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44097541">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Superbly written naturalism. The words fit together in sentences like gemstones in a jewelry setting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edith Wharton is such an amazing author! Her works up until this minute haven’t disappointed me. Everything about her idea/theme, how she portrays her characters, how she describes the scenes in such detailed-beautiful language, how she pours out her character's mood and expression, and how she gi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49166933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were elements of this book I enjoyed, but I really couldn't force myself to get into it.  For all that Lily Bart was a somewhat interesting character, I couldn't force myself to care overly much about her-- until maybe the last 3 chapters (and those last three chapters are probably why I'm not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32493568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book stunned me. I had no idea that Edith Wharton was so brilliant. I remember reading Ethan Frome in high school and thinking it was just way too depressing. I love reading authors as an adult and finding their prose luminous and wise...it makes you realize how little you knew as a teenager. M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30989395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth&quot; Ecclesiastes 7:4 KJV. Hence begins the story of Lily Bart, raised from birth with no other purpose in life than to be a beautiful ornament to society. Lily is left with little money of her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30693289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Undecided</strong><br/><br/>It's hard to feel any sympathy for, or identification with, Lily Bart. Moving among the nouveau riches of New York City, she aspires to marry someone wealthy. In her better moments, she wishes to transmute the money into something finer in life, to create beauty. But, more often...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28846407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had the great delight of hosting a friend over the weekend. We knew each other throughout college, lived down the hall from one another, and constantly figured in the other's socializing--but somehow, the two of us never grew close. That's what happens when you move within a circle of mutual frien...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21365955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book! And one of the most beautifully written in my opinion. Every sentence Edith Wharton pen's is poetry-some of the analogies and metaphores she uses just floor me! I think I have half of the book underlined/highlighted. <br/>  Set amongst the affluent society of the New York upper-class ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17641856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I was inspired to pick up this book when a 50 year old female director that I worked with in NYC did not know who Edith Wharton was. Mind you, this woman is rolling in dough, top of her respective game. I guess I thought that people who make it in NYC, especially in that age group, have a clue...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8965783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's amazing how contemporary this book still feels today. Lily Bart, a privileged young woman, finds herself dependent on the kindness of friends once her family fortune is ruined. She longs for independence, but her social position and her desire to maintain the lifestyle she once knew keep her fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4792587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The cleverest girl may miscalculate where her own interests are concerned, may yield too much at one moment and withdraw too far at the next: it takes a mother's unerring vigilance and forsight to land her daughters safely in the arms of wealth and suitability.&quot;  <br/><br/>I read this b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1420279">more...</a>]]></body>
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