Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton.
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 77
ISBN-13: 9780486266909
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Accident victims -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Rural poor -- Fiction; New England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle.

Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to an older woman, Frome is emotionally stirred by the arrival of a youthful cousin who is employed as household help. Mattie's presence not only brightens a gloomy house but stirs long-dormant feelings in Ethan. Their growing love for one another, discovered by an embittered wife, presages an ending to theis grim tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic.
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