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Edith Wharton¿s The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the early 20th century wile also being an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today. Including a selection of illustrations from the original magazine publication, which offers a unique insight to what the contemporary reader would have seen, this volume provides not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wharton¿s text.

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Edith Wharton¿s The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the early 20th century wile also being an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today. Including a selection of illustrations from the original magazine publication, which offers a unique insight to what the contemporary reader would have seen, this volume provides not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wharton¿s text.
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Janet Beer is Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely on North American women's writing, especially Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin.