The House 🏘️ of Mirth

The House 🏘️ of Mirth

👓 Edith Wharton
The House 🏘️ of Mirth

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The House 🏘️ of Mirth

✅ The House 🏘️ of Mirth 🗣️ the story of Lily Bart, aged 2️⃣9️⃣, beautiful, impoverished ➕ in need of a rich husband to safeguard 👤👩⬅️ place in the social elite, ➕ to support 👤👩⬅️ expensive habits - 👤👩⬅️ clothes, 👤👩⬅️ charities ➕ 👤👩⬅️ gambling. Unwilling to ➡️💍 without both ❤️ ➕ 💸, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip ➕ slander which attach to a 👧 who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton 💹 the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily’s life 🧬, providing, along the way, a wider picture 🖼️ of a society in transition, a rapidly changing 🚼️ New 🆕 York where the old 🧓 certainties of manners, morals and ➕ family 👪️ have disappeared and ➕ the individual has become an expendable ♟️ commodity.



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