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The House of Mirth (Oxford World's Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Edith Wharton, Martha Banta (Editor) Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953810-7 / 0199538107 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953810-2 / 9780199538102 "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 |