Ethan Frome
By: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter
Contributors: Elaine Showalter (Editor)
Edition: Oxford World's Classics paperback
Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780192834966
Copyright date: 1996
First sentence: I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Description: 'It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the care- less powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.' 

Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.

• INTRODUCTION • TEXTUAL NOTE • BIBLIOGRAPHY • CHRONOLOGY • EXPLANATORY NOTES
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Notes: UK/USA