Page:The Fruit of the Tree (Wharton 1907).djvu/651



[12mo. $1.50]

Illustrations by

&quot;In my judgment The House of Mirth is a story of such vitality, of such artistic and moral insight, that it will stand by itself in American fiction as a study of a certain kind of society. The title is a stroke of genius in irony, and gives the key to a novel of absorbing interest, as relentless as life itself in its judgment, but deeply and beautifully humanized at the end.&quot;—.

"Mrs. Wharton has done many good things. She has never done anything better than this.&quot;—The Academy.

&quot;She is the first to make a really powerful and brilliant book out of the material offered by American fashion to the novelist. A sterling piece of craftsmanship, a tale which interests the reader at the start and never lets him rest till the end is reached.&quot;—New York Tribune.

&quot; So accurate an account of the thoughts and deeds of a single human being has, we are certain, never hitherto been written.&quot;—Boston Transcript.

ft It is a great American novel, intensely interesting, marvelous in its literary finish and powerful in its delineation of Lily Bart.&quot;—Philadelphia Press.

[12mo. $1.00]

Illustrated in color by

&quot;We know of no book in which the virtues of the short story are united with the virtues of the novel in a higher degree than in this instance.&quot;—New York Sun.