| Ethan Frome Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author), Shreve, Anita (Foreword by), Moore, Susanna (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451531310 ISBN-13: 9780451531315 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $5.36 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: Nineteenth-century New England villager Ethan Frome is tormented by his love for his ailing wife's cousin. Trapped, he may ultimately be destroyed by that which offers his greatest chance at happiness. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013658201 |
| Lexile Measure: 1090 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 4.24" W x 6.74" (0.21 lbs) 192 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10031 Reading Level: 7.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A masterwork of American literature from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence. A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife's young cousin. Trapped by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, he is ultimately destroyed by that which offers him the greatest chance at happiness. Like The House of Mirth and many of Edith Wharton's other novels, Ethan Frome centers on the power of local convention to smother the growth of the individual. Written with stark simplicity, this powerful and tragic novel has long been considered one of Wharton's greatest works. |