Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and...

The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her, the beautiful, upstanding Delia, and her true mother, her plain, unmarried ‘aunt’ Charlotte, who...

Lily Bart moves in the shallow, new-moneyed class of New York society in which men make the money and women spend it. There amongst the glib diversions of the newly rich, she seeks a husband who...