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Ethan Frome & selected stories: Edith Wharton.

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Record Number 859433
ISBN 9781411432154 (electronic bk)
Author Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Title Ethan Frome & selected stories [electronic resource] / Edith Wharton.
Publisher/Date 2009.
Pagination etc. 1 online resource
Contents note Downloadable eBook.
Summary Note One of Edith Wharton's few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in love with her visiting cousin, the vivacious Mattie Silver. As Mattie is forced to leave his household, Frome steals one last afternoon with her—one that culminates in a ruinous sled ride with unspeakably tragic results. Unhappily married herself, Edith Wharton projected her dark views of love onto people far removed from her social class in Ethan Frome. Her sensitivity to natural beauty and human psychology, however, make this slim novel a convincing and compelling portrait of rural life. A powerful tale of passion and loss—and the wretched consequences thereof—Ethan Frome is one of American literatures great tragic love stories. Also included in this volume are four of Edith Wharton's finest short stories: "The Pretext," "Afterward," "The Legend," and "Xingu."does not go unnoticed.
Subject Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Married people -- Fiction
Rural poor -- Fiction
Farm life -- Fiction
Massachusetts -- Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Love stories.
Electronic books.
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