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Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters... Read Full Overview

Ethan Frome , written by Edith Wharton, is a classic American novel that focuses on the story of a broken "ruin of a man" -- the titular Ethan Frome -- and the series of misfortunes in life and love that contribute to his fate. Set in the rural town of Starkfield, Massachusetts,... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton's classic novella of lost love, struggling marriage, and accidents. The narrator followings the happening in the life of Ethan Frome, who falls in love with a woman who had been hired to care for his wife. Tensions run high in the love triangle, leading to a devastating... Read Full Overview

A masterwork From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nineteenth-century New England villager Ethan Frome is tormented by his love for his ailing wife's cousin. Trapped, he may ultimately be destroyed by that which offers his greatest chance at happiness...

Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately... Read Full Overview

Cette histoire, c'est brin ? brin, et par maintes gens, qu'elle m'a ?t? cont?e. Et, comme il arrive d'habitude en pareil cas, j'ai entendu chaque fois une version nouvelle.Si vous connaissez Starkfield, bourgade perdue dans la partie montagneuse du Massachusetts, vous aurez certainement... Read Full Overview

Ethan Frome , written by Edith Wharton, is a classic American novel that focuses on the story of a broken "ruin of a man" -- the titular Ethan Frome -- and the series of misfortunes in life and love that contribute to his fate. Set in the rural town of Starkfield, Massachusetts,... Read Full Overview

The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'

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Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome,... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton's most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella explores the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people... Read Full Overview

A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome,... Read Full Overview

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. Set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tales ever told, this is a classic that has seen many adaptations including screenplays... Read Full Overview

Etham Frome (1911) relata la vida de un hombre rodeado de condiciones adversas que demuestran su amargo destino. l se convierte en un fantasma viviente que deambula su pena por el pueblo de Starkfield. Ethan se encuentra atrapado en un matrimonio sin amor y resignado a su aciaga... Read Full Overview