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IN EDITH WHARTON'S The House of Mirth, Lily says of herself, "There's no turning back--your old self rejects you and shuts you out."
Her cry of anguish to Gerty is the key to this exquisitely woven novel, and beautifully well-timed. We go on to see Lily enjoying herself on a yacht in the Mediterranean, at Monte Carlo and so on, but we know that for all the opulence and for all her outward good cheer, her having ...