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Ethan Frome (Virago modern classics)

Ethan Frome (Virago modern classics)

by EdithWharton (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1991

    $3.49

  • Used

    Paperback 1995

    $3.25

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    Paperback 2007

    $15.02
Synopsis

The setting for this piercing New England novel is the aptly named Starkfield, where, despite violently blue skies, the chill of cold and snow seems also to settle inside the hearts of the people who live there. Tethered to his farm, first by helpless parents, later by his querulous, hypochondriac wife Zeena, Ethan Frome ekes out a bare subsistence. Then Zeena's cousin, the impoverished, enchanting Mattie Silver comes to work for them, and, in Mattie, Ethan's hopes and dreams are rekindled. Yet theirs is a forbidden love, hemmed in by Zeena's presence. The impossible intensity in which the three exist has devastating consequences...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 24 Jan 1991
ISBN 10: 1853812285
ISBN 13: 9781853812286

Media Reviews
Edith Wharton is unique in the intimacy and sureness, not to mention the virile and satiric tone, with which she investigates this narrow and declining society * TLS *
Wharton's prose, with its menacing images of death and darkness, is superb. First published in 1911, it remains a hauntingly stark masterpiece * IRISH TIMES *
Author Bio
Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. She was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from Yale University and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize with THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, also a film. In 1930 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in 1937.