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	"The House of Mirth": Social Renovation Creates Social Disorder
		The society that Wharton depicts in The House of Mirth is one that serves two masters: the capitalist marketplace and the older aristocratic traditionalism.
		In The House Mirth this new high society, infused with the old and new, is depicted as narcissistic, voracious and soulless.
		Throughout The House of Mirth, the reader is exposed to the complex intercourse that existed in high society.
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	THE HOUSE OF MIRTH - DVD
		The House of Mirth is likewise obsessed with the illusory depths of mirrors and the suffusion of warm light that physically blurs the edges of the characters, melting every scene into a carefully framed and meticulously blocked Rococo tableau vivant.
		The House of Mirth is amazingly lush to behold, yet so festooned with artifice and manner that it is emotionally cold: a dusty painting in a forgotten wing of a museum that dazzles with its technique but only fleetingly captures the imagination.
		Even if The House of Mirth is not without its occasional esoteric pleasure (for the student of the technical aspects of direction or of the visual arts and for the considerable talents of actress Laura Linney), it is too successful at being an artifice and a pretense.
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	THE HOUSE OF MIRTH - DVD
		The House of Mirth is likewise obsessed with the illusory depths of mirrors and the suffusion of warm light that physically blurs the edges of the characters, melting every scene into a carefully framed and meticulously blocked Rococo tableau vivant.
		The House of Mirth is amazingly lush to behold, yet so festooned with artifice and manner that it is emotionally cold: a dusty painting in a forgotten wing of a museum that dazzles with its technique but only fleetingly captures the imagination.
		Even if The House of Mirth is not without its occasional esoteric pleasure (for the student of the technical aspects of direction or of the visual arts and for the considerable talents of actress Laura Linney), it is too successful at being an artifice and a pretense.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/houseofmirth.htm (1501 words)

	The House of Mirth (2000): Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Laura Linney - PopMatters Film Review
		Wharton announced this indictment in her title, which she took from the Bible: "The house of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth" (Ecclesiastes 7:4).
		While both novel and film show that Lily is a fool to set her hopes on the house of mirth, they also ask whether we can blame her for refusing to live in the house of mourning.
		The House of Mirth was published just six years after Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class, in which he coined the term "conspicuous consumption." While Wharton certainly decries her characters' vanity, she is more concerned about the lack of familial and social responsibility in a community obsessed with possessing and parading their worldly goods.
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	Goodreads \| The House of Mirth
		The House of Mirth is one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century.
		The House of Mirth chronicles the rise and fall of Lily Bart, a stunningly beautiful late-nineteenth-ce...more I love books about people who perish for staying true to their principles, regardless of what these principles are.
		The House of Mirth may not be Wharton’s best novel (I think I prefer both The Age of Innocence and The Custom of the Country), but like all her work, it's eminently readable -- beautifully written and full of acute social and psychological insights (particularly into Lily's position).
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	The House of Mirth Summary and Analysis Summary
		The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Born in New York in 1862 to elderly parents, Edith Wharton was raised in a family replete with socially prominent relatives.
		The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society.
		This analysis of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth examines the issue of innocence as it pertains to the female protagonist.
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	The House of Mirth - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		He proves well-suited to bring to the screen "The House of Mirth," a devastating expose of the cruelty and hypocrisy of high society a century ago.
		"The House of Mirth" becomes as bleak as any play pertaining to the House of Atreus, but it possesses such a fire-and-ice intelligence and passion that its sense of the tragic is exalted in effect, as in the tragedies of Aeschylus.
		There is an aesthetic unity to "The House of Mirth" that Martin Scorsese's Wharton adaptation, the costlier and starrier "The Age of Innocence," lacked.
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	Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Selected Bibliography
		"The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's House of Mirth." Edith Wharton's the House of Mirth.
		"The House of Mirth: A Novel of Admonition." Edith Wharton's the House of Mirth.
		"Lily Bart and the Drama of Femininity." Edith Wharton's the House of Mirth.
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	Amazon.de: The House of Mirth (Norton Critical Edition): English Books: Edith Wharton,Elizabeth Ammons (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The House of Mirth is Wharton's first big novel, and it isn't as good as some of her later works.
		The House of Mirth certainly has plenty of juicy elements -- sex scandals, flmail, gambling, unrequited love, exotic trips to France, etc. It is also a great character study, particularly of Lawrence Selden, who is portrayed as an outside observer looking in on the social world of New York, much like the reader is doing.
		In "The House of Mirth" there is a girl named Lily Bart whose family was much poorer than the majority of individuals around her.
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		Peniston, who never lights the lamps in her huge house unless there is "company" (101), has erected the social into a religion, a distortion that has earned her "an unequalled familiarity with the secret chronicles of society" (123), whose fluctuations she eagerly watches "from the secluded watch-tower of her upper window" (120).
		In "The House of Mirth Revisited," Diana Trilling points out that "The poignancy of [Lily's] fate lies in her doomed struggle to subdue that part of her own nature which is no better than her own culture" (109).
		Frances L. Restuccia, for instance, in the widely-anthologized "The Name of the Lily: Edith Wharton's Feminism(s)," notes that "The House of Mirth is a feminist novel" that celebrates Lily's "irreducibility," her "indeterminacy," and her "equivocation"--aspects of character that enable Lily to elude "the attempted encapsulizations of her male observers" (407).
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	AboutFilm.Com - The House of Mirth (2000)
		Indeed, if House of Mirth is faithful to the essence of the novel, it must be a damn good novel.
		Like Wharton's other works, The House of Mirth is a treatment of the oppressive mores of turn-of-the-century high-society New York and the ruthlessness disguised by that society's veneer of civility.
		For that reason, The House of Mirth may occasionally seem to drag, but the last act is a hell of a payoff, rendering the preceding events more significant than they at first appear to be.
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	The House of Mirth (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Director Terence Davies' screen version is true to Wharton's words and vision, capturing both the slashing wit of people whose chief interest in life is being cruel to one another and the resounding hollowness that accompanies the endless pursuit of unearned wealth.
		To accomplish that, Davies and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin stage House of Mirth as a series of set pieces, a collection of conversations that move from one dark, brown room to the next, punctuated by spare patches of light and interrupted occasionally and briefly by the hustle and bustle of the world outside.
		House of Mirth is that rare film that seems to have just about everything -- everything, that is, but mirth.
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	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
		Lily Bart, the heroine of The House of Mirth, is a victim of a large, unstoppable shift in the ways of the world.
		On one level a devastating satire of a world devoid of moral scruples, The House of Mirth is also a stringent critique of the particular restrictions and limitations such a world imposes on women.
		Born in 1862, Wharton spent her childhood in the staid brownstones of New York and the elegant country houses to which the rich retired during the summer, and was intimately acquainted with the styles of entertaining, of dress, and of conspicuous consumption favored by the people who inhabited them.
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	The House of Mirth
		Her X-ceptional performance in "The House of Mirth" is so radiant, so powerful, and so utterly riveting, that she not only leaves her X-character Dana Scully X-iled to Area 51, but she may even get a bona-fide Oscar nomination to boot.
		The problem is that she's not emotionally or physically attracted to anyone else, and when she breaks the rules of this Edwardian game of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless," she finds herself up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
		That's what makes her such a revelation in "The House of Mirth." Think of "The X-Files" as the desert that she's been wandering in for the last 8 years.
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	Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Selected Bibliography
		"Dialectic of Transvaluation in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.
		"The Daughter's Dilemma: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.
		"A Mole in the House of the Modern." New Essays on The House of Mirth.
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	Bad Subjects: Shopping for a Change: The House of Mirth and Paris is Burning
		In contrast to The House of Mirth, I will discuss Jennie Livingston's film Paris is Burning to suggest that it is not only what is consumed in acts of identity formation that needs to be problematized, but the very act of consumption itself.
		The House of Mirth follows Lily Bart as she lives among the 'new rich' in New York City at the turn of the century, a world in which, because of her modest income, she can only ever vicariously live, but a world of which she is desperate to be a part.
		This is important in comparing The House of Mirth with Paris is Burning, since the latter clearly has the greater subversive potential in terms of ideologies of gender and sexuality.
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	The House of Mirth (2000)
		The House of Mirth is like being trapped with the drama snobs from high school for over two hours, as they try to humiliate your lowbrow little mind with literary-speak that is way out of your league.
		Laura Linney's acting style was like she was from another planet, and she completely stole the entire plodding film from all the other actors who had been smirking away for two hours.
		The House of Mirth is that it would make a beautiful screensaver for your computer.
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	The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		"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.
		" "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.
		Haus Bellomont is German for "House of Mirth." The house party Lily attends at the very beginning of the book is called Bellomont.
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	Amazon.ca: The House of Mirth: Books: Edith Wharton (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Seemingly infinite wealth, preeminent social status, and unmitigated decadence form the shaky foundation of Edith Wharton's fictional and frictional, yet highly plausible, house -- a house that, ironically enough, is conspicuously devoid of mirth.
		As the bible verse(Ecl 7:4) states from which she nabbed the title, "...the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." As Lily is inexorably extricated from this house of miserable frivolity, I found it increasingly difficult to nonchalantly label Lily a failure, but rather as a heroine of noble courage.
		Edith Wharton's classic, "The House of Mirth", while written well, was flawed in several ways.
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	The House of Mirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by Edith Wharton.
		The title is taken from Ecclesiastes 7:4: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
		Of all of Wharton's best-known novels, The House of Mirth seems the most tragic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_House_of_Mirth (455 words)

	James Sanford reviews The House of Mirth (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Even declarations of passion tend to be made in a roundabout way, almost as if the speaker wanted to leave him/herself an "out" in case the speech didn't produce the intended effect.
		It's clear from the first pages of Wharton's 1905 masterpiece "The House of Mirth" that socialite Lily Bart and lawyer Lawrence Selden are meant for each other -- they seem to know it, too -- but neither of them is willing to break through their verbal camouflage to acknowledge their real feelings.
		If anything, however, Davies is even rougher on poor Lily than Wharton was since the screenplay omits most of Lily's temporary detours into happiness and forces us instead to stand back and watch her descent into destitution and desperation.
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	The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton - Trade Paperback - Random House
		In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.
		The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles.
		The House of Mirth (1905) was both a resounding critical success and a bestseller, as was Ethan Frome (1911).
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	The American Novel . Video \| PBS
		THE HOUSE OF MIRTH: There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest act seemed the result of far-reaching intentions.
		NARRATOR: Lily Bart, the subject of Edith Wharton's THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, begins her journey at the apex of the American Dream.
		THE HOUSE OF MIRTH: She was almost sure she had "landed" him: a few days' work and she would win her reward.
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	Head Butler - Books
		But in 1903 to 1905, when Wharton was writing "The House of Mirth," society --- that is, upper-class New York "Society" --- was remarkably judgmental about a woman in such a position.
		The reason "House of Mirth" is assigned in English class is because it is a brilliantly written dissection of a society we like to think has disappeared.
		"House of Mirth" sold 100,000 copies in its first year --- equivalent to what a Grisham sells now.
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	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "The House of Mirth"
		Edith Wharton's 1905 "The House of Mirth," ostensibly a novel about early-20th century New York aristocracy, is really an outer-space story, and intuitively at least, director Terence Davies seems to know it.
		Davies' "The House of Mirth" is nothing like a science-fiction movie, of course, except in the way it uses atmosphere to impart a creeping pallor of claustrophobia and even menace.
		His "House of Mirth" is a stately movie, sometimes too much so, moving with the speed and sprightliness of a dowager aunt, and the dialogue -- much of it taken directly from the novel -- is sometimes stiff and awkward.
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	The House of Mirth -- Chapter 12 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their recently built house, whatever it might lack as a frame for domesticity, was almost as well-designed for the display of a festal assemblage as one of those airy pleasure-halls which the Italian architects improvised to set off the hospitality of princes.
		The air of improvisation was in fact strikingly present: so recent, so rapidly-evoked was the whole mise-en-scène that one had to touch the marble columns to learn they were not of cardboard, to seat one's self in one of the damask-and-gold arm-chairs to be sure it was not painted against the wall.
		He knew too well the transiency of exquisite moments to attempt to follow her; but presently he reentered the house and made his way through the deserted rooms to the door.
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