{"id":4859,"date":"2017-03-11T08:59:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T15:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2017-04-12T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:26:22","slug":"the-house-of-mirth-by-edith-wharton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-house-of-mirth-by-edith-wharton\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The House of Mirth<\/strong><\/em> was was written by Edith Wharton and published as a book in October of 1905. (Earlier in that year it was serialized in <em>Scribner&#8217;s Magazine<\/em>.) \u00a0The novel tells the tale of socialite Lily Bart as she deals with issues of money, a woman&#8217;s place in society and social expectations.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn&#8217;t any.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The House of Mirth\">The House of Mirth<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Edith Wharton\">Edith Wharton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1689.jpg\" alt=\"The House of Mirth\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1689.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1689-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1689-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1689-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also posted this at the <a title=\"LitQuotes Facebook page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LitQuotesSite\" target=\"_blank\">LitQuotes Facebook page<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LitQuotesSite\" target=\"_blank\">LitQuotes Twitter page<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/litquotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, tells the tale of socialite Lily Bart as she deals with issues of money, a woman&#8217;s place in society and social expectations.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[830,354,452,1138,562,561,540],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-photos","tag-1title","tag-edith-wharton","tag-life-quotes","tag-problems-quotes","tag-the-house-of-mirth","tag-trouble-quotes","tag-words-of-wisdom-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}