Ethan Frome Oxford World´s Classics
Ethan Frome Oxford World´s Classics `It was not so much his great height that marked him ... In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her…
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Ethan Frome Oxford World´s Classics
`It was not so much his great height that marked him ... In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.' Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver.
In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success. In its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. Readership: Students from sixth-form/last year of high school to graduate level, of American literature, twentieth-century literature, women's writing.