Wharton's first literary success, set amid fashionable New York society, reveals the hypocrisy and destructive effects of the city's social circle on the character of Lily Bart. Impoverished but well-born, Lily must secure her future by acquiring a wealthy husband; but her downfall - initiated by a romantic indiscretion - results in gambling debts and social disasters.
| ISBN: | 9780486420493 |
| Publication date: | 28th March 2003 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 268 pages |
| Series: | Dover Thrift Editions |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |