For the first time in Russian is one of the main novels by the classic of American literature, the author of such a recognized masterpiece as “The Age of Innocence,” awarded the Pulitzer Prize and filmed by Martin Scorsese. It was through The House of Mirth that Edith Wharton earned the title of “Leo Tolstoy in a skirt.” “The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, and the heart of the foolish is in the house of merriment,” warned the biblical Ecclesiastes. So for the young beauty Lily Bart, New York at the turn of the century symbolizes not so much a golden age as a golden cage. Only a profitable marriage will help her regain the high position lost by the Bart family as a result of her father's bankruptcy - but over and over again Lily misses a profitable chance, consumed either by the demon of self-destruction, or by the expectation of great love. And it was not for nothing that she was compared with another victim of high society - Anna Karenina...In 2000, the novel was filmed by Terence Davis, starring Gillian Anderson (Agent Scully from The X-Files) and Dan Aykroyd.