Beautiful but impoverished socialite Lily Bart drifts through turn-of-the-century New York high society, her search for a wealthy marriage undone by debt, scandal, and her own scruples.
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “grabbed something—anything, The House of Mirth, Daniel Deronda”
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan: “Edith Wharton—The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth (must be read in strict order).”
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk: “Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel The House of Mirth asks the question of what a woman is if she is not a wife, a mother”
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “unlike her other major novels, The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth”