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Ethan Frome

(Enriched Classics (Pocket))

By Edith Wharton

(71)

| Mass Market Paperback | 9780743487702

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED

BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:

• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information

• A chronology of the author's life and work

• A timeline of significant events that prContinue

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED

BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:

• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information

• A chronology of the author's life and work

• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context

• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations

• Detailed explanatory notes

• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work

• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.

SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON

Critics

  • 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 had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps."

    La narrativa stringente e perfettamente controllata di questo capolavoro mantiene tutte le promesse e questa frase del narratore all'inizio del libro descrive benissimo il senso della storia.

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    candida said on Jan 18, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • 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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    Your Sources said on Jul 24, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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