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The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

Start date: December 1, 2010

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Jun 14, 2021 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, classics

First the good: Wharton could craft a sentence like nobody's business, and she takes apart uptight, traditional, suffocating gender roles and class divisions. She also manages to make an utterly unlikable character somehow sympathetic, and I am always drawn to anti-heroes. The ending, which I won't spoil, is described in one review as the most ambiguous in American literature.
Yep. It was a real "Wait, what?!" moment.
Finally, the cover is gorgeous and I want that dress!!
OK now the bad: it's viru ...more

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Oct 09, 2008 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, classics, fiction-20th-century, audio-books, read-2009, american-fiction

A book not so splendid as The Age of Innocence with a quite depressing ending.

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May 09, 2010 Rosana rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio-books, bookish-w13-challenge, 2013

I listen to this in audiobook, and now I wished I had the book to browse through some of the passages. It is a masterpiece of sociology and psychology disguised as a work of fiction. It is also a feminist document.

Lily Bart will stay with me for a long time.

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