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Ethan Frome: A Classic American Tragedy
Hardcover
RomanceClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515433118
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ethan Frome is Edith Wharton's stark, unforgettable tragedy of thwarted love, rural isolation, and emotional imprisonment in a snowbound New England village. In the bleak Massachusetts town of Starkfield, Ethan Frome lives a life narrowed by poverty, duty, illness, and silence. Bound to his difficult wife, Zeena, and drawn helplessly toward her young cousin Mattie Silver, Ethan finds himself caught between moral obligation and the desperate hope of happiness. What follows is one of the most devastatingly controlled works in American fiction: brief, severe, and almost merciless in its emotional force.
First published in 1911, Ethan Frome shows Wharton working in a darker and more compressed register than the society novels for which she is often best known. Instead of New York drawing rooms, she gives readers frozen roads, failing farms, unspoken resentment, and lives shaped by hardship and restraint. Yet the novel's power comes from the same sharp intelligence that animates The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence: Wharton's exact understanding of social pressure, self-deception, class limitation, and the private costs of choices made-or not made-under pressure.
This SMK edition is well suited to readers of classic American literature, psychological fiction, tragic romance, New England regional fiction, women writers, literary realism, and early twentieth-century novels of marriage, duty, and desire. Ethan Frome remains one of Wharton's most accessible and haunting works: a small book with the force of a winter landscape closing in.
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