Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton ; edited by Carol J. Singley
Contributors: Singley, Carol J., 1951- editor
Series: broadview editions
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781554810178
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Rural poor; Farm life; Accident victims; Married people; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Fiction
Description: Of her twenty-five novels and novellas, Ethan Frome is the one of which Edith Wharton was most proud. In the novel, young Ethan From marries Zeena Pierce, who is seven years his senior, after she nurses Ethan's mother in a terminal illness. When Zeena also turns sickly, she invites her sousing Mattie Silver to live in and help with household chores. Ethan and Mattie fall in love, and Zeena, aware of their attraction, decides to send Mattie away. A desperate Ethan cannot bear the thought of letting Mattie go, but neither can he escape with her. The couple decide upon a course of action designed to ensure that they remain together, but the plan falters and all three characters are left to suffer its nightmarish consequences.
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-251).
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 7; title: Introduction
pagenum: 9; title: Edith Wharton: A Brief Chronology
pagenum: 31; title: A Note on the Text
pagenum: 39; title: Ethan Frome
pagenum: 41; label: Appendix A
title: Writings by Edith Wharton
pagenum: 137; label: 1
title: Introduction to Ethan Frome (1922)
pagenum: 137; label: 2
title: From The Writing of Fiction (1925)
pagenum: 140; label: 3
title: From A Backward Glance (1934)
pagenum: 142; label: 4
title: "Mrs. Manstey's View" (10 July 1891)
pagenum: 146; label: Appendix B
title: Correspondence
pagenum: 159; label: 1
title: Edith Wharton to Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis Lodge (20 June [1910])
pagenum: 159; label: 2
title: Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson (4 January [1911])
pagenum: 161; label: 3
title: Edith Wharton to W. Morton Fullerton (16 October [1911])
pagenum: 164; label: 4
title: Henry James to Edith Wharton (25 October 1911)
pagenum: 166; label: 5
title: Edith Wharton to Charles Scribner (27 November [1911])
pagenum: 168; label: Appendix C
title: Contemporary Reviews and Commentaries
pagenum: 171; label: 1
title: From The New York Times (8 October 1911)
pagenum: 171; label: 2
title: From Outlook (21 October 1911)
pagenum: 174; label: 3
title: From The Nation (26 October 1911)
pagenum: 175; label: 4
title: From The Saturday Review (18 November 1911)
pagenum: 178; label: 5
title: From John Curtis Underwood, "Culture and Edith Wharton" (1914)
pagenum: 179; label: 6
title: From William Lyon Phelps, "The Advance of the English Novel," The Bookman (July 1916)
pagenum: 181; label: 7
title: From Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Edith Wharton: A Critical Study (1922)
pagenum: 181; label: 8
title: From Alfred Kazin, "The Lady and the Tiger," Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1941)
pagenum: 183; label: 9
title: From Percy Lubbock, Portrait of Edith Wharton (1947)
pagenum: 187; label: Appendix D
title: Tragedy
pagenum: 191; label: 1
title: From Aristotle, Poetics (335 BCE)
pagenum: 191; label: 2
title: From Arthur Miller, "Tragedy and the Common Man" (1949)
pagenum: 193; label: 3
title: From Richard Sewall, The Vision of Tragedy (1980)
pagenum: 197; label: Appendix E
title: Health and Fitness
pagenum: 201; label: 1
title: From Theodore Roosevelt, "The Strenuous Life" (1902)
pagenum: 201; label: 2
title: From Samuel McComb, "The Power of Suggestion in Nervous Troubles" (May 1908)
pagenum: 203; label: 3
title: From Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on Sexuality (1905) and "The Economic Problem of Masochism" (1924)
pagenum: 206; label: 4
title: From George Kennan, "The Problems of Suicide" (June 1908)
pagenum: 208; label: Appendix F
title: Sex and Marriage
pagenum: 213; label: 1
title: Junius Browne, "Romantic Marriages" (January 1895)
pagenum: 213; label: 2
title: From Mrs. P. T. Barnum, "Moths of Modern Marriage" (March 1891)
pagenum: 214; label: 3
title: From Byron Hall, "A Lesson Conjugal" (1 September 1903)
pagenum: 216; label: 4
title: From William Lee Howard, Facts for the Married (1912)
pagenum: 218; label: 5
title: "Separation the Cure for Matrimonial Woe" (16 January 1905)
pagenum: 220; label: 6
title: From "Felix Adler on Divorce" (26 January 1905)
pagenum: 223; label: Appendix G
title: New England and the Nation
pagenum: 227; label: 1
title: "Lenox High School Girl Dashed to her Death," The Berkshire Evening Eagle (12 March 1904)
pagenum: 227; label: 2
title: "A Sleeping Giant," The Youth's Companion (18 November 1909)
pagenum: 232; label: 3
title: From Rollin Lynde Hartt, "The Regeneration of Rural New England," Outlook (3 March 1900)
pagenum: 234; label: 4
title: From "The Value of Natural Scenery," Outlook (26 September 1908)
pagenum: 236; label: Appendix H
title: Photographs
pagenum: 239; label: 1
title: The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts (1906)
pagenum: 239; label: 2
title: The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts (1906)
pagenum: 240; label: 3
title: Edith Wharton (1910)
pagenum: 241; label: 4
title: Wharton's Library, The Mount (undated)
pagenum: 242; label: 5
title: Sledding in Lenox, Massachusetts (1890s)
pagenum: 243; label: 6
title: Cover of Ethan Frome, the Play (1936)
pagenum: 244; title: Works Cited and Further Reading
pagenum: 245