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Like Fitzgerald’s novel, The House of Mirth achieves something much more than satire. It is a comedy of manners that turns into grim tragedy as Lily Bart, the novel’s central character, lets numerous marriage opportunities (her only means of escape from material worry) slip between her fingers through painful error and impulse of heart. Possessing a spirit much larger than that which she is allowed to express in the ornamental role prescribed for her by society, Lily begins a descent from which she cannot recover. In the course of events, she finds herself gradually stripped of all trappings of wealth and shunned both by family and former friends.
Kindle Book
- Release date: February 27, 2002
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- ISBN: 0594084385
- Release date: February 27, 2002
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- ISBN: 0594084385
- File size: 1185 KB
- Release date: February 27, 2002