The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton torrent

Category: Classic, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Literature Novel Classic
Written by Edith Wharton
Read by Anna Fields
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 13 hours and 42 minutes

The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton’s first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called “a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers” with a precision comparable to that of Proust. And her brilliant and complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and dependence on marriage for economic survival reduce her to a decorative object, becomes an incisive commentary on the nature and status of women in that society.