Title: The House of Mirth
Description: Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world.
Subjects: Fiction, Single women, Social classes, Drama, Social life and customs, Classic Literature, Social status, Social values, open_syllabus_project, Roman, Manners and customs, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, psychological, Single women, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, general, Social conditions, Fiction, historical, American literature, Separated women, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Social norms, Upper class, Married people, Women, Fiction, historical, general, Young women, Classes sociales, Romans, nouvelles, Femmes seules, Wharton, edith, 1862-1937, Theater, united states, history, Rich people, Long Now Manual for Civilization
Places: New York (N.Y.), New York (State), New York, United States
People: Lily Bart
Time periods: 1865-1918