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About This Novel

This book is Edith Wharton's first novel that caused a great sensation. It was first published in 1905 and sold 140,000 copies within two months of its release. This is a social novel and a text of American naturalistic literature. As soon as the novel came out, it caused a great response in the "New York Times" at that time, calling it "a novel with extraordinary shocking power". The author places his protagonist Lily in the context of New York's upper class society in the 1870s, and shows the tragic life of this woman who is full of inner tangles and struggles between social customs and traditions.

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