The House of Mirth Classics and the healthy

and the healthy

the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark

humanity's dangerous attraction to authoritarianism

and often remembered for its epic film version

The House of Mirth Classics and the healthyA bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth centurynow with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jennifer Egan. Whartons first literary successa devastatingly accurate portrait of New Yorks aristocracy at the turn of the centuryis considered by many to be her most important novel, and Lily Bart, her most