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If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride ov...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The House of Mirth by Edith WhartonIt was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentionsA searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a mans world, The House of Mirth sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York but reluctant to finally commit herself to a husband. In her search for freedom and the happiness she feels she deserves...

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City - people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, age twenty-nine, seeks a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and all the trappings of wealth. But her quest comes to a scandalous end when s...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith WhartonHe seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surfaceEthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeenas vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the poss...