The House of Mirth 本屋大賞 (2016) Eliza begins to blossom

Eliza begins to blossom

Set against the backdrop of Japan's changing seasons and narrated with a rare gentleness and humour

he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid

From Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan to the Cold War and globalization

But did this intrepid Venetian really become the first European to cross the continent of Asia

The House of Mirth 本屋大賞 (2016) Eliza begins to blossomA literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill fated attempt to rise to the heights of a heartless society in which, ultimately, she has no