Mirth

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180949347
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Mirth written by Edith Wharton and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 19th-century New York, high society places great demands on a woman—she must be beautiful, wealthy, cultured, and above all, virtuous, at least on the surface. At 29, Lily Bart has had every opportunity to marry successfully within her social class, but her irresponsible lifestyle and high standards lead her further and further down the social ladder. Her gambling debts are catching up with her, and an arrangement with a friend's husband causes society to begin questioning her virtue. The House of Mirth is Edith Wharton’s sharp critique of an American upper class she viewed as morally corrupt and relentlessly materialistic. EDITH WHARTON [1862–1937], born in New York, made her debut at the age of forty but managed to write around twenty novels, nearly a hundred short stories, poetry, travelogues, and essays. Wharton was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times: 1927, 1928, and 1930. For The Age of Innocence [1920], she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.

Author : James Martin
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062098624
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Heaven and Mirth written by James Martin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Between Heaven and Mirth will make any reader smile. . . . Father Martin reminds us that happiness is the good God’s own goal for us.” —Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York From The Colbert Report’s “official chaplain” James Martin, SJ, author of the New York Times bestselling The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, comes a revolutionary look at how joy, humor, and laughter can change our lives and save our spirits. A Jesuit priest with a busy media ministry, Martin understands the intersections between spirituality and daily life. In Between Heaven and Mirth, he uses scriptural passages, the lives of the saints, the spiritual teachings of other traditions, and his own personal reflections to show us why joy is the inevitable result of faith, because a healthy spirituality and a healthy sense of humor go hand-in-hand with God's great plan for humankind.

Author : Deborah Esch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521378338
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays on 'The House of Mirth' written by Deborah Esch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in 2001, makes distinctive claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's breakthrough work.

Author : Janet Beer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134269536
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Of Mirth written by Janet Beer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-07-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by the success of recent film adaptations, it is also an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of The House of Mirth and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wharton’s text.

Author : Edmund Yates
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirth and metre written by Edmund Yates and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mirth and metre" by Edmund Yates, Frank E. Smedley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Kevin Ahern
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359477275
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good For the Mirth written by Kevin Ahern and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Colville
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136887172
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sobriety & Mirth written by Jim Colville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. These extremely entertaining shorter pieces by the leader of Islamic literary culture aim to instruct us on matters of moral and social concern. They cover such uses as Chanteuses, The Pleasure of Girls and Boys, This Life and the Life to come, Drink and Drinkers, Envy, and the Superiority of the Front to the Back. Always taking a moral tone, Jahiz seldom fails to lighten with humour and wit.

Author : Cuyler Black
Publisher : Andrews Mcmeel+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1449468292
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inherit the Mirth: Church Life written by Cuyler Black and published by Andrews Mcmeel+ORM. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inherit the Mirth is where faith meets funny. Showcased among its off-the-wall panels are well-known Bible personalities like Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, David and Goliath, Jesus, and the disciples. Playfully reverent, Inherit the Mirth petitions for an 11th Commandment: Thou shalt laugh! In this e-book original, the laughter centers on the interactions and activities in the church community.

Author : Elbridge Hosmer Sabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.BB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magical Man of Mirth written by Elbridge Hosmer Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Kandelin Chambers
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465388907
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On a Journey to Mirth written by Linda Kandelin Chambers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edie Ēga and Emma Big are ten year old best friends who set out one day On a Journey to Mirth. Step into the enchanted village of Ina Claire for a wonderful adventure as Edie and Emma travel to a land where "if the sun is high and the water still..." butterflies dust the air with their delight. And come to love the "yellow, happy hound" named Pixie who joins the girls by chance and at the last serves as the truest example of faithfulness and friendship. Readers will meet the old boatman, Emmett Hays, and will sail on the maiden voyage of the beautiful Grace, a rowboat fashioned after a lovely Trumpeter swan. It is this craft that takes Edie and Emma and Pixie across the cool, calm waters of Lily Lake until suddenly a violent storm and a blackened sky dense with rain puts the travelers in frightening peril. A daring rescue, a poet's clever riddle, and a whimsical fairy named Flora Dora are among the events and characters who help Edie and Emma unravel the mystery of Mirth. Charming pen and ink illustrations by Kim Sponaugle enhance each chapter.