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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 03/03/2011
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ISBN: 9780099540762
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm
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Weight: 255g
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RRP: £5.99
Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends of New York's high society. But time and again Lily cannot bring herself to make the final decisive move: to abandon her sense of self and a chance of love for the final soulless leap into a mercenary union. Her time is running out, and degradation awaits. Edith Wharton's masterful novel is a tragedy of money, morality and missed opportunity.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 03/03/2011
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ISBN: 9780099540762
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm
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Weight: 255g
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RRP: £5.99
Reviews
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"Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that you're rarely aware as they purl by that the sentences are so pretty...I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done. But 100 years ago, Edith Wharton's drive, independence, wilfulness and autodidactic mastery of the English language were extraordinary, and I bashfully claim her as a kindred spirit"
Guardian
