Synopsis In nineteenth-century Starkfield, Massachusetts, a poor young farmer falls in love with the vivacious Mattie, cousin of his sickly, demanding wife, and starts a devastating chain of events. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text, an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story, and a study guide.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2000-06-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 160 pages | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 3.2 oz |
Publisher's Note A New England farmer must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for her cousin, in a new edition of Wharton's classic novel, which features a new foreword by novelist Anita Shreve. Reprint.
Industry Reviews "The utter pessimisn of 'Ethan Frome'... is too bad to be true; it is Hardyesque self-indulgence..." Spectator - Anthony Burgess (12/03/1965)
"The book to the making of which I brought the greatest joy, and the fullest ease, was 'Ethan Frome'. For years I had wanted to draw life as it really was in the derelict mountain village of New England, a life... utterly unlike that seen through the rose-colored spectacles of my predecessors, Mary Wilkins and Sarah Orne Jewett... 'Ethan Frome' was written after I had spent ten years in the hill-region where the scene is laid, during which years I had come to know well the aspect, dialect, and mental and moral attitudes of the hill-people." Introduction - Edith Wharton
"The wonder is that the spectacle of so much pain can be made to yield so much beauty." (10/26/1911)
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