| Ethan Frome Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486266907 ISBN-13: 9780486266909 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $4.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1991 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Gothic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 90019748 |
| Lexile Measure: 1090 |
| Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5" W x 8" (0.18 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Catalog Heading - Classics - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10031 Reading Level: 7.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle. Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to an older woman. Frome is emotionally stirred by the arrival of a youthful cousin who is employed as household help. Mattie's presence not only brightens a gloomy house but stirs long-dormant feelings in Ethan. Their growing love for one another, discovered by an embittered wife, presages an ending to this grim tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic. |