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Ethan Frome

(Signet Classics (Paperback))

By Edith Wharton

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| Paperback | 9780451522276

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Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is 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 characteContinue

Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is 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 her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.

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  • Ethan Frome

    La presentazione e le recensioni di Ethan Frome, opera di Edith Wharton edita da Rizzoli. Fin dalla sua apparizione, nel 1911, questo romanzo si propone come una sorta di ordigno narrativo affascinante e perturbante. Racconta la vicenda che lega tra ... (read full critics)

    Qlibri published on Thu, 22 Dec 2011

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  • I did read the simple version at school, but decided to read the original one. The story's plot is quite simple, but the way the author presents it is quite good!

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    Amily said on Oct 2, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • Critical comment(s)/introduction:

    A marked departure from [the author's] usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York Society...[this book] is a sharply-etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village....[It] centers on the power of local convention to smother the growth of the individ ... (continue)

    A marked departure from [the author's] usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York Society...[this book] is a sharply-etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village....[It] centers on the power of local convention to smother the growth of the individual. Written with stark simplicity, this powerful and tragic novel has long been considered one of her greatest works.

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