{"product_id":"the-house-of-mirth-9781909621978","title":"The House of Mirth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth, \u003c\/i\u003eEdith Wharton gives us a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the privileged society of early twentieth-century New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition features an introduction by novelist Danuta Reah. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a world that inspired the lavish costume drama \u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Age, \u003c\/i\u003e written by Julian Fellowes, the creator of \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble and socializes with the wealthy upper-class families of New York. But her meagre finances are dwindling and her place in society is slipping away from her. Her only hope of security is to find a suitable husband. However, Lily has an independence of spirit that stands in the way of her committing to the available suitors. As her options diminish, friends become enemies and her situation grows increasingly perilous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married a Boston socialite; the couple travelled frequently and settled in France in 1907, but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. On her trips to Europe Wharton became a close friend of the novelist Henry James. Her first major novel was \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e (1911), \u003ci\u003eThe Reef\u003c\/i\u003e (1912) and \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e (1920). Wharton was decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War. She died in France in 1937. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDanuta Reah is a novelist and an academic who works in the field of English language and linguistics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50476041371922,"sku":"9781909621978","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_68086ac6-05ad-4f2d-b6a9-acd45078bf95.jpg?v=1774962201","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-house-of-mirth-9781909621978","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}