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The House of Mirth
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1905
- Pages
- Pages 350
A beautiful, penniless woman circles the edge of New York society, gambling on one advantageous marriage after another, until scandal and debt strip away every rung, and she dies alone from an overdose of sleeping drops.
Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
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