| Ethan Frome Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684825910 ISBN-13: 9780684825915 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: Best known for her satirical depictions of the manners and mores of New York society, Edith Wharton shows her mastery of a far different milieu in this classic story of a farmer who is trapped in a loveless marriage to a tyrannical wife. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Gothic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96040047 |
| Lexile Measure: 1090 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.76" W x 7.8" (0.32 lbs) 160 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10031 Reading Level: 7.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1911, Ethan Frome is widely regarded as Edith Wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of New England, it is the tragic tale of a simple man, bound to the demands of his farm and his tyrannical, sickly wife, Zeena, and driven by his star-crossed love for Zeena's young cousin, Mattie Silver. In its spare, chilling creation of rural isolation, hardscrabble poverty and wintry landscape, writes Alfred Kazin in his afterword, Ethan Frome overwhelms the reader as a drama of irresistible necessity. An exemplary work of literary realism in setting and character, Ethan Frome stands as one of the great classics of twentieth-century American literature. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist--the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921--as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Born into one of New York's elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. |