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Lily Bart — beautiful, intelligent, charming — is trapped like a butterfly in the inverted jamjar of wealthy New York society. Flawed by her upbringing and her love of luxury, she is unfit for any other life. Strong-minded enough to suffer bitter contempt of the lies and follies that such a society is built on, she nevertheless knows that she needs money, or marriage, to maintain her precarious foothold in it — and that once she slips down the treacherous social staircase there is no way back. But Lily, incapable of reconciling the warring elements in her nature, moves step by inevitable step to the final act of her poignant personal tragedy. First published in 1905, when it profoundly shocked society, The House of Mirth is a novel of manners that helped to carve out for the author an area of social fiction into which not even Henry James could trespass.