The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.
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Lily Bart, a beautiful and unmarried woman, 29-year-old, living in the leisure-class of New York, is eager to marry. Unfortunately, she misses several chances of attaining her goal, some of which have been broken by her own faults, others by other people’s...
评分心理描写很细致，很多处也都很有女权主义的雏形。只是当下社会已经给了女性更多的的选择，所以没有太多的代入感。如今女人不再是当客厅的太太一条路了，就算是上流社会的公主也是要去投行训练一下，有“正经工作”的。在此真挚地谢谢书中扮演背景的女工，是他们的存在和努力最...
评分In Chapter 13, when Lily met Nettie Struther, the woman she'd helped by her charity work, she was told that Nettie's baby girl was named "Marry Anto'nette" (Marie Antoinette) because she sees the resemblance between Miss Bart and the French queen's beauty. ...
评分起初读着准备给五星的，女作家细致的观察和描写，洞彻人的心扉等等，挺有意思。但是这本不厚的书前后断断续续读了两个月，越到后来越是读不下去。整本书用两句话就可以概括了。女主拼搏在万恶却华丽的上流社会，同时又被向往真爱和正义感的另一个自己绊住脚跟，最终失败地、饮...
评分怎么说呢，小姐的身子丫鬟的命。 看完book 1 如果女主生长在现在，肯定境遇会好很多。就像一个漂亮清脆叫声的小鸟,被寒冷冻死了。令人惋惜。 可能女主唯一可以称为缺点的就是太贪心，想要财富又想要脱离财富的豁达人格。在那个时代两者本身是矛盾的。财富的代表rosedale向她伸...
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磨了超过一年终于读毕，哈利路亚。Edith Wharton的作品读起来有点像自虐，故事flow极其缓慢，美丽的文笔却又勾人继续读下去。The House of Mirth, 一位美人的浮华人生与消殒，在最后的时刻，她守住了自己的阵地，而作为代价，却也不得不面对未来灰暗的前景 -- 好让我这个慢性抑郁者闹心。Selden这般懦弱的男人不要也罢
评分淑女是高级饰品，绅士是赚钱机器，这样的上流社会，存在有什么意义？
评分Ecclesiastes 7:4, "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
评分The author almost held a stoic moral standard for her heroine,elaborately plotting her to the predetermined tragic yet untouching ending.
评分读来有切肤之痛。不喜欢用干巴巴的理论分析它，因为它明明只是社会风俗小说，却直击了生活核心的真实。
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