Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton ; with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons.
Contributors: Ammons, Elizabeth.
Edition: Ammons edition (9)
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780142437803
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Accident victims -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Rural poor -- Fiction; Farm life -- Fiction; Massachusetts -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in Penguin Classics. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie’s vivacious cousin enters their household as a ‘hired girl’, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction’s finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton’s other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read novel.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]-xxiv).