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Title: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0-451-52756-9 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (75 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Slow at times, but solid
Comment: This book shares the story of a truly conflicted young woman, Lily Bart. Her character is vivid and keeps you reading through passages where Wharton almost tries to drive you away with her verbosity. Not the best book I've ever read but decent none the less.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great classic...
Comment: I thought the book was very much like Jane Austin's works which is probably one of the reasons I liked it. It gives a great picture of society at that time and I enjoyed Wharton's writing style. I wouldn't call Lily Bart a tragic heroine. I wanted her to find happiness, but I didn't pity her. Even as she tried so desperately to get into a society she condemned. I also enjoyed other characters, sometimes more that Lily Bart. I thought Wharton did a good job developing some of the other characters as well (Miss Farish, Seldon..)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wharton's best!
Comment: I think this is comparable to Anna Karenina, a tragic heroine who only fails because she at once plays by and with the rules of her society. I enjoyed reading other reviewers' troubles with it as a truly fine novel must disturb and implicate its readers. Lily Bart is one of the all time great fictional characters. I also want to recommend to fans of this book Nathaniel West's "Day of the Locust."
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Title: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss ISBN: 0375753206 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Summer by Edith Wharton ISBN: 0553214225 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Anita Shreve ISBN: 0451527666 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: A River Sutra by Gita Mehta ISBN: 0679752471 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir, H.M. Parshley, Simone de Beauvoir ISBN: 0679724516 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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