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La casa de la alegría: cuando la determinación y el orgullo son la perdición de una mujer
La casa de la alegría - Edith Wharton
calificación: 5/5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Género: clásico / histórico
Opinión y chisme: 👇👇👇
El segundo libro que leo de la autora y es la segunda vez que ha superado mis altas expectativas, una vez mas me pongo de pie y aplaudo a la autora por tan INCREÍBLE OBRA 🔊.
Que gran placer ha sido leer esta novela, me ha encantado todito: la construcción de la trama y de los personajes, la critica contundente y profunda, el ambiente y costumbres tan bien descritos, la prosa que me ha hecho sentir orgullosa de haber entendido.
La trama en sí no es algo novedosa, pero la manera en que la autora la ha estructurado es lo que me dejado maravillada; teniendo como escenario el ambiente pomposo de la alta sociedad neoyorquina del siglo 19, nuestra protagonista debe afrontar situaciones y dificultades que poco a poco van escalando, dejándola expuesta a las despiadadas (malas)costumbres de ese ambiente de la época.
Describir a la protagonista y demás personajes podría desencadenar decenas de spoilers, solo puedo decir que me parecieron excelentes incluso con sus facetas mas criticables; como comenté, cada uno tiene una construcción increíble y la autora profundiza en ellos (al menos en los principales) para entender su linea de pensamientos y cada decisión, lo suficiente para ensalzar cada capitulo y dejarte con ganas de más.
Debo admitir que es un libro que me ha costado seguir por momentos, y es que la prosa de la autora es compleja y sofisticada (se podría considerar pesada) pero si se le agarra el ritmo, es de esos libros que te impresionan y te hacen sentir inteligente (al menos eso me pasó, con cada capítulo completado, yo estaba como: soy intelectual, muy inteligente 🎶 😆)
Impresionante, atrapante, he sufrido y reflexionado bastante; en definitiva, Edith Wharton entra a mi lista de autoras preferidas y este es de los mejores que libros del año, me ha encantado, es difícil recomendarlo porque es todo un reto clásico, pero quien quiera, se encontrará con una novela trágica y magnifica, en serio, que gran libro 👏👏👏👏👏.
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Just drawing my way through her filmography. Lily is such a fantastic character. The House of Mirth is beautifully tragic, definitely a must see and a must read. #art #artistsoninstagram #artist #draw #drawing #digitalpainting #digitaldrawing #portrait #gilliananderson #thehouseofmirth #perioddrama #lily #classic #greatbooks #greatfilms #tragic #butbeautiful #costumedrama #icryeverytime https://www.instagram.com/p/BnxlMivnfO1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=st8dtzxcd1hi
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On Wednesday’s we wear pink
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☕𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧☕️
House of Mirth
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Some notes on the House of Mirth. 🙇🏻♀️🍃 IG: aylmerstudies
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* COLLECTIONS * My newborn #signetclassics collection (which is being put to shame by @drummingonthecover's latest post). I love looking at them. This is also part 2 of my January #bookhaul. I bought most of these from @thewoodenword. Scroll down her feed, I think she still has some left. ~ I also wanted to spread some love to some newish accounts I think are pretty neat 💕. Check these guys out: @letthemreadbooks @bookiful.life @paperbacksoul @jennyehwaters @readinginflorence @neverenoughbookshelves @writingonbookmargins @bookhound . . . . . #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #igreads #libri #instalibri #lettura #adambede #georgeeliot #thepossessed #dostoyevsky #roughingit #marktwain #thehouseofmirth #edithwharton #theunvanquished #faulkner #prideandpredjudice #janeausten
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A book about choosing frivolity over substance in life
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Hello friend. . . I wanted to read 'The Alienist' but I am finally not in the mood so I decided to begin this: 'The House of Mirth' by Edith Wharton. . A classic I absolutely have to litterally eat before watching the movie adaptation with the fab Gillian Anderson. . #bookstagram #bookaddict #bookoholic #thehouseofmirth #edithwharton #books #novel #classics #penguinbooks #secondhandbooks #booklover #newyork
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Badass Women: Edith Wharton, an American feminist from day one
I recently (i.e. a month ago) read my first noel by Edith Wharton, “The House of Mirth,” and now I wonder why it took me so long to read anything by her or learn about her. In researching for this blog post, I realize that I quite literally knew nothing, and I regret it. Wharton was an amazing woman who was years and years ahead of her time. She was a feminist before the term existed.
Born in New York City, Wharton grew up in Europe and was fluent in four languages by the age of 10 was fluent in four languages. She loved writing and wrote poems and short stories throughout her childhood. She also loved reading, and was constantly filching books from her father’s library.
As a young woman, Wharton rejected the fashionable clothing, deeming it superficial, as it was meant to attract marriageable men and she was not interested in that. At 15 she published her first work, a translation of a poem from the German. However, it was not published under her name because it was considered proper for the times. By the age of 16, she had been published in the Atlantic Monthly, had privately published poems and short stories, and had written a novella. Despite all of this, no one in her world encouraged her to pursue writing. But we all know that didn’t stop her.
Wharton was a unique woman for her time. Along with her writing, which was considered scandalous, she was socially polemic. She broke off an engagement in her late teens, and much later had an affair which led to her divorce. These things were all considered unacceptable in her day and age, and after her divorce she went to live in France.
I could keep going on and on about all the ways in which Wharton defied social convention or supported women in gaining equal footing in the world, such as opening a workroom for women in France during World War I, or becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, but her most important feminist act was her writing itself.
Although some (notably Kate Bolick in her book “Spinster”), have deemed her novels anti-feminist for their less-than-satisfactory endings (i.e. the main character does not live happily ever after), I firmly reject this notion. Let’s take, for example, “The House of Mirth,” which follows a rich-but-now-poor socialite trying to make it in the upper class, although she has no means of doing so. She eventually commits suicide (sorry, spoiler) but through her novel, Wharton exposes not only the double standard in 20th century society, but also the social hypocrisy. Women could not survive without men, and had to bend to fit society’s conventions in order to attain a husband, in order to survive. The main character refuses to do this, and society punishes her. Wharton openly criticized the society in which she was born and raised. That’s a badass piece of feminist literature if I ever read one.
I have all but fallen in love with Wharton and her writing, and I highly recommend any of her works--not just one of her 15 novels, but also her autobiography (”A Backward Glance”), her poetry, short stories, or any of her books on a number of other topics, including travel, design, and cultural criticism.
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The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part. ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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@gillianaofficial #Thehouseofmirth / #HausBellomont #LilyBart
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When your mom lets you take her to the bookstore…I am going to read every one of these (two I’ve read from this heap). #Steinbeck #Shakespeare #Miller #Atwood #Wilde #Austen #books! 📚📚📚
I did not add to the tags #Tolstoy #Dickens #Dostoevsky (currently 70% through 'The Idiot' RN). Plus a few 'current books' which I rarely read: #TheGirlOnTheTrain #TheTimeTravelersWife #TheWomanInCabin10 #AllTheLightWeCannotSee Plus classics; #DoctorZhivago #ValleyOfTheDolls #VanityFair #TheBrothersKaramazov #TheHouseOfMirth #ThePictureOfDorianGray #TheCrucible #AsYouLikeIt
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"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." 🕯 📖 ☕️ #currentlyreading thehouseofmirth #edithwharton #houseofmirth #literature #bookaddict #bookstagram #book #books #bookme #bookworm #booknerd #reading #booklover #igreads #instabook #ilovebooks #lifeofaformerenglishmajor #tea #candle #bigelowtea #doubledaybooks
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