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 | The House of Mirth (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Reprint Edition) by Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff (Editor), Cynthia (Notes By) Wolff Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1993 ISBN-10: 0-14-018729-4 / 0140187294 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018729-8 / 9780140187298 "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those wh | |