Descripción
The Tragic Love Story Reveals The Destructive Effects Of Wealth And Social Hypocrisy On Lily Bart, A Ravishing Beauty. Impoverished But Well-Born, Lily Realizes A Secure Future Depends On Her Acquiring A Wealthy Husband. Her Downfall Begins With A Romantic Indiscretion, Intensifies With An Accumulation Of Gambling Debts, And Climaxes In A Maelstrom Of Social Disasters.
More A Tale Of Social Exclusion Than Of Failed Love, The House Of Mirth Reveals Wharton’S Compelling Gifts As A Storyteller And Her Clear-Eyed Observations Of The Savagery Beneath The Well-Bred Surface Of High Society.
