Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton ; with an afterword by Alfred Kazin.
Edition: 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. (2)
Publisher: Scribner Paperpack Fiction
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780684825915
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Accident victims -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Rural poor -- Fiction; New England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: First published in 1911, Ethan Frome is widely regarded as Edith Wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of New England, it is the tragic tale of a simple man, bound to the demands of his farm and his tyrannical, sickly wife, Zeena, and driven by his star-crossed love for Zeena's young cousin, Mattie Silver. "In its spare, chilling creation of rural isolation, hardscrabble poverty and wintry landscape," writes Alfred Kazin in his afterword, "Ethan Frome overwhelms the reader as a drama of irresistible necessity." An exemplary work of literary realism in setting and character, Ethan Frome stands as one of the great classics of twentieth-century American literature.
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