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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (2005, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Ethan Frome, Paperback by Wharton, Edith; Ammons, Elizabeth (CON), ISBN 0142437808, ISBN-13 9780142437803, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A New England farmer must choose between his duty to care for his difficult, invalid wife and his love for her vivacious young cousin.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100142437808
ISBN-139780142437803
eBay Product ID (ePID)12045
Product Key Features
Book TitleEthan Frome
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicClassics, Romance / General
GenreFiction
AuthorEdith Wharton
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight3.8 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-051351
Dewey Edition19
Notes byAmmons, Elizabeth
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.52
Grade ToUP
SynopsisSet 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. Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was a member of a distinguished New York family said to be the basis for the idiom 'keeping up with the Joneses'. During her life she published more than forty volumes, including novels, stories, verse, essays, travel books and memoirs; for years she published poetry and short stories in magazines, but the book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth (1905), which established her both as a writer of distinction and popular appeal. In 1920, Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature with her novel The Age of Innocence . If you enjoyed Ethan Frome , you might like Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter , also available in Penguin Classics., 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
LC Classification NumberPS3545.H16E7 2005
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- May 15, 2023
EVEN RICH WOMEN HAD NO RIGHTS AT ALL WHEN THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN... BY A WOMAN.
Edith Wharton was brought up in privilege and wealth. However you have to remember. back then women had absolutely no rights whatsoever, Even rich women. They were educated in the running a huge household, language, and fashion. However, Edith was able to write a tragic love story with the characters being very very poor people. So Edith was very intelligent and observant. her personal life was a tragedy with divorce which was rare in those days and mental illness.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
