Ethan Frome
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140187366 (0140187367)
Publish date: February 1st 1994
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Edition language: English
Despite the author’s literary skill, I didn't think much of this novella. In its brief page count, it chronicles the tragedy of Ethan Frome, a struggling young farmer hastily married to a cousin who constantly insists upon her unspecified ailments; while yearning for a better life, Ethan falls hard ...
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 of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle.Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marria...
I'm not an Edith Wharton fan, but I enjoyed this. Nice ending.
I'm not an Edith Wharton fan, but I enjoyed this. Nice ending.
I thought I knew how this book was going to end — tragically, of course, but I didn't know that Wharton would add an extra punch that hit me sideways and prevented the novel from being a typical tragic love story. At first I was only mildly impressed by the story and the characters, but that unexpec...
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