Edith Wharton
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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 |
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The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countrysideEthan 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.
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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 herHe 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
I'm not really sure what to say about this book. After I finished reading it I proceeded to read all the glowing, rave reviews from my Goodread friends and members and quite frankly, I just don't get why all the glowing, rave reviews! Seriously.I had to stop and start again because I was bored senseless. What tedious dribble. My goodness! The only way I powered through was because I had a doctor's appointment and this was the only book I brought with me. It started to get only slightly better in
Because March is women's history month, I made it a point to only read women authors over the course of the month. As the month winds to a close, I have visited many places and cultures, learning about historical events from a female perspective. Yet, to observe women's history month, it would not be complete with paying homage to classic authors. In this regard, I decided to read Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's tragic novella. Ethan Frome of Starkfield, Massachusetts has known much tragedy in his
Finally, I have the right word for this predicament: When a capable author uses her prowess to create a work whose sole purpose seems to be to depress the reader, it can be described as Frome. This word can also be used as a verb, noun, adjective (Frome-ish, Frome-ier, etc), adverb (Frome-ly), etc. to similarly describe the effect it has on the reader, (ie, "I was Fromed.") An example used in a sentence may be: "John Steinbeck was clearly suffering from a touch of the Frome when he penned The
Magnificent, 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
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