Edith Wharton – The House of Mirth
Ep. 1 – Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905)
00:00 Intro
00:51 Biography and Context
06:19 Money and Happiness
13:25 Morality vs. Hypocrisy
20:44 Gender, Class, and Freedom
28:08 Love and Friendship
35:01 Our Next Books
The next three novels will be:
Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March (1953) (video on August 30).
Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (1851)
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote (1605)
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Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. Penguin English Library. 2012.
Legros, Christine. "The House of Mirth." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 25 Sep 2018. Web. 15 Aug 2021.
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