Ethan Frome

Author/creator Wharton, Edith Author
Other author Showalter, Elaine 1941- Editor
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Description160 p. ill 04.900 x 07.400 in.
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SeriesOxford World's Classics Ser.
Summary Annotation `It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.' Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells 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 leastcharacteristic and most celebrated book. In its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. 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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ISBN9780192834966
ISBN0192834967 (Perfect) Out of Print
Standard identifier# 9780192834966
Stock number00020142

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