The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
Recommended by Mindy Kaling and Chelsea Handler
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
A bestseller when it was originally published nearly a century ago, Wharton's first literary success was set amid the previously unexplored territory of fashionable, turnofthecentury New York society, an area with which she was intimately familiar.The tragic love story reveals the destructive effects of wealth and social hypocrisy on Lily Bart, ...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Chelsea Handler
“I read that in 9th grade, and that book completely changed my life. I love Edith Wharton, and my teacher Ms. Fox had us read it, and I just never read a book like that before, like a book that?s from the early 1900?s but felt so modern in terms of what the main character was going through. | I read that in 9th grade, and that book completely changed my life. I love Edith Wharton, and my teacher Ms. Fox had us read it, and I just never read a book like that before, like a book that’s from the early 1900’s but felt so modern in terms of what the main character was going through.”
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