An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she contracts at the card table, her reduced circumstances and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after suitor appears and fades away, and she is drawn further and further down a spiral of loneliness and unhappiness, she realizes that she is just one step away from losing everything she has.
| ISBN: | 9781847498793 |
| Publication date: | 24th May 2022 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton |
| Publisher: | Alma Classics an imprint of Alma Books COMMIS |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Alma Classics Evergreens |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Sense of place Narrative theme: Social issues Romance / Relationship Stories |