Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters: Introduction by Hermione Lee Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author), Lee, Hermione (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 030726825X ISBN-13: 9780307268259 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2008272555 |
Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (1.15 lbs) 416 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters.
Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. Summer, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to Ethan Frome-Wharton herself called it "the hot Ethan"-in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. Bunner Sisters takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late nineteenth-century New York City, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes.
All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of our greatest writers. |