num_pages: 374
description: This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's quintessential novel of the Gilded Age reprints the Scribner's magazine text of 1905, including the eight original illustrations.The text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the editor for student readers. Backgrounds and Contexts includes selections from Edith Wharton's letters; articles from the period about etiquette, vocations for women, factory life, and Working Girls' Clubs; excerpts from the work of contemporary social thinkers including Thorstein Veblen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Olive Schreiner; and a consideration of anti-Semitism at the turn of the century by historian John Higham. Also included are Charles Dana Gibson's precautionary piece "Marrying for Money" (including four Gibson drawings) and a tableau vivant of "The Dying Gladiator."Criticism reprints six central contemporary reviews of the novel and six biographical and interpretive modern essays by Millicent Bell, Louis Auchincloss, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, R. W. B. Lewis, Elaine Showalter, and Elizabeth Ammons.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
language: English
title: The House of Mirth
titlecomplete: The House of Mirth (Norton Critical Editions)
characters: Gus Trenor, Simon Rosedale, George Dorset, Lily Bart, Lawrence Selden, Bertha Dorset, Carry Fisher, Julia Peniston, Gerty Farish, Percy Gryce, Judy Trenor, Lily Bart, Lawrence Selden, Simon Rosedale, Judy Trenor, Gus Trenor, Percy Gryce, Bertha Dorset, George Dorset, Gerty Farish, Ju
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, New York, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 95507
places: New York (State), New York City, New York
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company