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&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LSTRONG&&REdith Wharton&&L/B&&R's dark view of
society, the somber economics of marriage, and the powerlessness of the
unwedded woman in the 1870s emerge dramatically in the tragic novel
&&LI&&RThe House of Mirth&&L/I&&R. Faced with an array of wealthy
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