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| Title | : | Ethan Frome |
| Author | : | Edith Wharton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 99 pages |
| Published | : | 2005 by Penguin Classics (first published 1911) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature. Academic. School. Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. American |
Edith Wharton
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The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book. --back cover
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| Original Title: | Ethan Frome |
| ISBN: | 0142437808 (ISBN13: 9780142437803) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292854/ethan-frome-by-edith-wharton/9780142437803/ |
| Characters: | Ethan Frome, Mrs. Hale, Zeena Frome, Mattie Silver, Mrs. Ned Hale, Denis Eady, Jotham Powell, Harmon Gow, Michael Eady, Lawyer Varnum, Ned Hale, Orin Silver, Andrew Hale, Aunt Martha Pierce, Mrs. Frome, Mrs. Homan, Dr. Buck, Eliza Spears, Aunt Philura Maple, Daniel Byrne, Dr. Kidder, Mrs. Varnum |
| Setting: | Starkfield, Massachusetts(United States) New England(United States) Massachusetts(United States) |
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For me, this novel is not Whartons best work, but still scores an easy 4 stars. She is that great.Ethan Frome is a farmer married to a woman he dislikes so intensely that he blows out the candle before undressing so he doesnt have to look at her when he gets into bed. And Zenobia is truly horrible. Shes a manipulative, self-absorbed, black hole of negativity who suffers from vaguely described shooting pains that keep her from doing any real work. Partly to help Zeena out, the couple brings herMagnificent, spectacular... I somehow always feel I must assign many types of superlatives to the magnificent & spectacular Edith Wharton! Definitely top ten writers of ALL TIME contender. Her best is "Age of Innocence," & her not-as-much (personally, alas) is "House of Mirth", but sandwiched between them is this tense novella about the restrictions of "unconventional" feeling. & it has the type of invigorating force that compels the reader to do his one job and do it good. I adore
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; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many
* Spoilers follow* This is a romantic tragedy that culminates in a sledding accident. I will just say a few brief words about that. First, there is probably a reason that sledding accidents don't figure more prominently in tragedies. Shakespeare wrote like 13 tragedies and to the best of my knowledge none featured a sledding accident (I have not read Titus Andronicus, so I can't be sure). If Shakespeare doesn't need to include a sled wreck, then neither do you.I will also say that I found Ethan
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of
Wow! I went into this one still processing the last book I read (Call Me By Your Name) and thinking maybe a novella and a few short stories would be a great way to ease into something else. It worked!😄Ethan Frome was a difficult read because, much like the movie Titanic, you know the ship is going down but you still kind of hope it won't (or that there'll at least be enough life boats). Within the first page or two you have a fair, though not absolute, idea of the outcome of the story. And even
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