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The House of Mirthlessness

Drowning in debt, Edith Wharton's Mass. estate faces foreclosure

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 28, 2008 12:19 PM CST

(Newser) – Edith Wharton's masterpieces include The House of Mirth, but the story of her own house is much less joyous. Her estate in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, currently a museum called the Mount that chronicles her life and career, is drowning under some $9 million in...   Read full story »

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