Ethan Frome

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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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  Be prepared for TRAGEDY. Painfully wretched ending, but positively beautiful.

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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

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  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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• English Books
• Paperback 128 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 1840224088
• ISBN-13: 9781840224085
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Pub date: Oct 01, 2000
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 774 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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