BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON
PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
"In my judgment The House of Mirth is a story of such vitality, of such artistic and moral insight, that it will stand by itself in American fiction as a study of a certain kind of society. The title is a stroke of genius in irony, and gives the key to a novel of absorbing interest, as relentless as life itself in its judgment, but deeply and beautifully humanized at the end."—Hamilton W. Mabie.
"Mrs. Wharton has done many good things. She has never done anything better than this."—The Academy.
"She is the first to make a really powerful and brilliant book out of the material offered by American fashion to the novelist. . . . A sterling piece of craftsmanship, a tale which interests the reader at the start and never lets him rest till the end is reached."—New York Tribune.
" So accurate an account of the thoughts and deeds of a single human being has, we are certain, never hitherto been written."—Boston Transcript.
ft It is a great American novel, intensely interesting, marvelous in its literary finish and powerful in its delineation of Lily Bart."—Philadelphia Press.
"We know of no book in which the virtues of the short story are united with the virtues of the novel in a higher degree than in this instance."—New York Sun.
