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House of Mirth belongs to this group and perhaps is the best of the year outside of In the Mood for Love. If the period film is traditionally concerned with offering pleasure—costumes, oversized estates, decor, dialogue, etc.—then Mirth is not conventional.
28 de jan. de 2023 · sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by Edith Wharton. It is centered on Lily Bart, a New York socialite who attempts to secure a husband and a place in affluent society. It was one of the first novels of manners to emerge in American literature.
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The House of Mirth, published in 1905, marks Edith Wharton’s emergence as one of America’s greatest writers. Although Wharton had previously published two collections of stories, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Incidents (1901) and the novel The Valley of Decision (1902), her decision to write about fashionable New York, a world ...
Analysis. One busy Monday afternoon in intense September heat, Lawrence Selden sees his acquaintance Lily Bart in the middle of the crowd in New York’s Grand Central Station. Although he is struck by her beauty and admires her greatly, he also wonders about her aimless attitude, as she seems to be waiting for something mysterious.
At the dinner table the night before, George Dorset, who was seated next to Lily, remarked to her that his wife, Bertha, who was seated next to Lawrence Selden, was ridiculing herself by trying so hard to seduce Selden. When Lily turned to look, she noticed that Selden, however, seemed uninterested in the woman’s advances.
She was unacquainted with the world of the fashionable New York hotel — a world overheated, over-upholstered, and over-fitted with mechanical appliances for the gratification of fantastic requirements, while the comforts of a civilized life were as unattainable as in a desert. Appears in 26 books from 1905-2007.
