Edith Wharton
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"Due to the limited options afforded young socialites of her era, Lily Bart must marry a wealthy man to secure her future. She prefers to marry for love, and in the process of searching, Lily finds herself on the wrong side of society's rules. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth brilliantly explores social currency, love and hypocrisy during the Gilded Age."--Publisher description.
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Kate Clephane has lived in exile in France since leaving her husband and infant daughter. She is being called back to New York by her now adult daughter to attend her daughter's wedding. Complicating already complicated matters her daughter is engaged to her one time lover Chris Fenno, a man who cannot be trusted, and worse yet Kate is still deeply in love with him. A novel of scandal and shame and the upper class.