Hated this in Soph. year of high school in 1975. Absolutely miserable 6 weeks (how did we drag it out that long, it isn't "War and Peace"?). Tried it again 35 years later and I've mellowed to intensively disliking it. Suicide by sled? Sounds like something that either qualifies for a Darwin Award or...
Ethan Frome is a man trapped in a loveless marriage to a bitter and miserable woman. His wife, Zenobia, always complaining about her imagined illnesses, sends for a poor cousin, Mattie, to help out in the house and care for her. Ethan falls in love with Mattie and is given the difficult choice of ...
The novel as a literary profile, and here there are three: a man, a marriage and a small town. Wharton is a master of the literary profile, and one of my favorite storytellers.
The novel as a literary profile, and here there are three: a man, a marriage and a small town. Wharton is a master of the literary profile, and one of my favorite storytellers.
I loved the writing. It is not glib; it is not ironic; it does not go about overburdened with ornament. I also loved the story, but I do have a tendency to like books considered "depressing." I call them "realistic." I didn't have to read this in school, and I think it better suited to adults. Many ...
If you told me this was a longish deleted segment of Winesburg, Ohio, I would totally believe you, even taking into account the fact that one of the books was written by Sherwood Anderson and the other by Edith Wharton. Like the stories in that much revered short story cycle (no not novel), Ethan Fr...
Wow, what an effed up story. I'm glad I only had to suffer through the emotional wasteland and starcrossed-tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in school(pathetic enough for me, thanks), because that was enough torment for my adolescent heart to handle. I actually thought that this heavy story was told brill...
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