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Ethan Frome : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Edith Wharton ; edited by Kristin O. Lauer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff.
Van Pelt Library PS3545.H16 E7 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- Series:
- Norton critical edition
- A Norton critical edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New England--Fiction.
- New England.
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Ethan Frome.
- Wharton, Edith.
- Married people--Fiction.
- Married people.
- Rural poor--Fiction.
- Rural poor.
- Farm life--Fiction.
- Farm life.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 186 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [1995]
- Summary:
- 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 the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [187]).
- ISBN:
- 0393966356
- OCLC:
- 30436245
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