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The House of Mirth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2004-08-26

Paperback: 400 pages

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The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkabl...

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The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2002-08-06

Paperback: 272 pages

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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, turn-of-the-century New York society, an area with which she was intimately familiar.The tragic love story reveals the destr...

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The House of Mirth (Enriched Classics (Simon & Schuster))

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2010-12-21

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP An incisive portrait of New York high society and the somber economics of marriage during the late nineteenth century, Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth tells the story of beguiling socialite Lily Bart's ill-fated attempt to find ha...

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The House of Mirth (Oxford World's Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2000-02-24

Paperback: 368 pages

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Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. A lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of her generation, Wharton's tale of Lily Bart's search for a husban...

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The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social, and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty, and sophist...

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* * * * * Insightful,
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty

by Julia Flynn Siler

Published: 2008-05-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built—and then spectacularly lost—a global wine empireSet in California’s lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betr...

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House of Night, Books 1-4 (Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed)

by P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast

Published: 2009-10-27

Paperback: 1264 pages

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The House of Night is a thrilling, New York Times bestselling book series that follows 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is “Marked” by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the “Change” into an actual vampyre. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, OK, and move into the Hou...

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A House of Pomegranates (Calla Editions)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2011-09-14

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Wilde's second collection of fairy tales, originally published in 1891, following "The Happy Prince" in 1888. The volume includes "The Young King," "The Birthday of the Infanta," and "The Star-Child." While these stories are clearly intended for a younger audience, Wilde, with typical sardonic quip declared...

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House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home

by Mark Richard

Published: 2011-02-15

Hardcover: 224 pages

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In this otherworldly memoir of extraordinary power, Mark Richard, an award-winning author, tells his story of growing up in the American South with a heady Gothic mix of racial tension and religious fervor.����Called a 'special child,? Southern social code for mentally?and physically?chall...

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The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999

Paperback: 576 pages

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Niall Ferguson's House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 was hailed as "definitive" by the New York Times, a "great biography" by Time magazine, and was named one of the Ten Best Books of 1998 by Business Week. Now, Ferguson concludes his myth--breaking portrait of one of the most ...