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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1948
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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The novel gives an excellent picture of New York "society" in the 1870's, the age of propriety and inexorable convention and of clan spirit and tribal solidarity in support of prescribed amenities. A woman who has incurred scandal is loved by a man who has sufficient vision to penetrate the crust of conventionality but has not quite the courage to break with the conventions.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded.
"A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century—now with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning...
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