The House of Mirth

Name: The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton

by Edith Wharton

Novel about a woman's struggle for independence against rigid social expectations

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, recognized for her incisive portraits of New York's Gilded Age aristocracy. Her novels dissect the constraints of social convention with psychological depth and wit.

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