Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 197 mm, Gewicht: 257 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 197 mm, Gewicht: 257 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
ISBN: 978-0-19-953810-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of Wharton's generation. Herself born into Old New York Society, Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by new codes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling the story of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts the age-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways that transform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting modern
document of cultural anthropology.
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