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I've been meaning to post more of 6 Degree of Separation - a monthly meme hosted by Kathy - and only waiting for a book which I have ac...

=Rosedale isn't that bad after all I can see now that, compared to the other men in Lily Bart's set, Rosedale isn'...

Chapter 6 & 7 I'm glad that Lily wasn't tempted to take revenge to Bertha through George Dorset, even when she just ne...

Book I Chapter 13 =It’s payday, the broker came to collect his commission. It's quite incredible that an adult woman l...

Blunders, Force of Nature, Corrupted Society From chapter 7 on we saw how Lily was 'jumping out of the frying pan into the fir...

Chapter 5 Sundays at Bellomont means going to church. Like in many other societies, attending the church gives them sense of hon...

"It's all coming back to me now!" - was how I felt when first plunging into this one of all-time-favorites of mine, on m...

Reading your favorite book for the second time can sometimes be quite risky. You can end up either liking it the more, or disliking it. B...

I think I have just found a favorite female author, who can be juxtaposed with Zola’s genius, intense, and beautiful naturalist style: Ed...

Do you sympathize with the characters? Which ones and why? My sympathy goes to Lily. She is the innocent victim of the society de...

What does the central character want? What is standing in her way? And what strategy does she pursue in order to overcome this block? ...

[ source ] Lily Barts’ Battle to Freedom: How a poor but sophisticated girl struggles to make money without submitting herself to men...

I can’t explain why this long passage from Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth has caught my attention, without spoiling the whole plot (fo...