For 10 points, identify this 1905 novel of manners about Lily Bart, the first major success for Edith Wharton.
In the seventh chapter of this novel, one character is revealed to have been romantically linked with both Lord Hubert and Prince Varigliano. In one scene in this novel, Carry Fisher organises a tableaux vivante at a party in the Brys's conservatory. A social-climbing Jewish banker offers money to this novel's progatonist when she loses her job in a millinery. During a cruise on the yacht Sabrina, one character in this novel covers up an affair with Ned (*) Silverton by accusing the bridge-addicted protagonist of sleeping with her husband George Dorset. At the end of this novel, both a large check written to Gus Trenor and the protagonist's death by sleeping draught overdose are discovered by Lawrence Selden. For 10 points, identify this 1905 novel of manners about Lily Bart, the first major success for Edith Wharton.
In the seventh chapter of this novel, one character is revealed to have been romantically linked with both Lord Hubert and Prince Varigliano.
The House of Mirth