Reading The House of Mirth | Alexandria
Read The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. Exposing gilded society's suffocating grip, Wharton reveals how wealth destroys the soul—not through poverty, but through excess. Wharton's genius lies in showing that privilege itself becomes a prison, as relevant now as in 1905. Her shocking insight? True freedom often means rejecting success by society's metrics.