| Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Classics Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598183796 ISBN-13: 9781598183795 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *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 | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Horror - General |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| Lexile Measure: 1200 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 108 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10031 Reading Level: 7.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Ethan Frome" is a tale remembered because exactly it speaks to something inside so many of us. It's the tale of an old man, shriveled at the heart -- and how he got to be that way. It's a tale of love conflicted and compounded -- a tale of tragedy and a lifetime of its aftermath. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - "Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt." |