1.86k reviews for:

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

3.92 AVERAGE

ljoymiller's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

contractileroots's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Gave me much to think about. I love how Edith Wharton writes her characters and presents to us their thoughts. They feel so human with all their complexities and contradictions.
The beginning did drag a bit for me at Bellomont and we are introduced to so many characters and relations at once that it was hard to keep up (I guess that tracks for high society in the early 1900s lol).

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Content Warnings

Caution about Lily Bart's anti-semitic remarks about Simon Rosedale. All is reflected in Lily's inner thoughts and appears only briefly during Rosedale's introduction in the novel.

girl_reading21's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

inkyspines's review against another edition

5.0

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I am extremely rattled by this book.

jizellereads's review against another edition

3.75

slow-paced

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enjoyed this 

xoxostephanie's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

swords_and_things's review against another edition

3.0

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Pretty good. I definitely understand Lily's sense of always looking for something, but never being sure of what it is and, thus, not finding it. It's a bit sad. One of those no-wait-if-only-she-would-have-done-this-instead books.

luci_ja's review against another edition

3.0

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The language was beautiful but I just couldn't get into the plotline. The book just dragged on, with one bad decision after the other, culminating in a fairly expected ending. Maybe there is something about US literature or period dramas that I just cannot relate to/do not really care about. 

alessandrawike's review against another edition

5.0

emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jackienq's review against another edition

5.0

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a wonderful book with an amazing heroine, and poignant commentary about high society.