Ethan Frome (Wordsworth Classics)

Edith Wharton

ISBN 10: 1840224088 / ISBN 13: 9781840224085

Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000

Seller Inventory # 1840224088-3-33066815

Synopsis:

With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University.

With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out 'to draw life as it really was' in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield, readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land. Piecing together the story of monosyllabic Ethan Frome, his grim wife, Zeena, and Mattie Silver, her charming cousin, Wharton explores psychological dead-lock:frustration, longing, resentment, passion.

First published in 1911, the novella stunned its public with its consummate handling of the unfolding drama, and has remained for many readers the most compelling and subtle of all Wharton's fiction.

Review: Edith Wharton is unique in the intimacy and sureness, not to mention the virile and satiric tone, with which she investigates this narrow and declining society --Tls

Wharton's prose, with its menacing images of death and darkness, is superb. First published in 1911, it remains a hauntingly stark masterpiece --Irish Times

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ethan Frome (Wordsworth Classics)
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good