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It was not so much his great height that marked him ...it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain. 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 novels 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 novels composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
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Ethan Frome Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press)
author
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Wharton, Edith.; Showalter, Elaine.
publisher
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Oxford University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0192834967
print isbn13
:
9780192834966
ebook isbn13
:
9780585351186
language
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English
subject
Married people--Fiction, Rural poor--Fiction, Farm life--Fiction, New England--Fiction, Domestic fiction.
publication date
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1996
lcc
:
PS3545.H16E7 1996eb
ddc
:
813/.52
subject
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Married people--Fiction, Rural poor--Fiction, Farm life--Fiction, New England--Fiction, Domestic fiction.
Ethan Frome
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OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
ETHAN FROME
EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES) WHARTON (18621937) was born in New York, of wealthy and socially prominent parents. She spent much of her childhood in Europe, and although she had little formal education, developed an early taste for the arts. In 1885 she married Edward Robbins Wharton, a Harvard graduate and banker thirteen years her senior; the marriage was never happy, and they divorced in 1913. After several years of relative idleness and depression, Wharton turned to writing; her first book, The Decoration of Houses (1897), was based on her remodelling of The Mount, her newly purchased country residence in Lenox, Massachusetts. Wharton achieved critical renown with the publication of The House of Mirth in 1905. She moved to France in 1907, where she became part of a cosmopolitan society of writers and intellectuals. Wharton published more than forty books, and became best known for her novels of New York society and fashionable Americans abroad, including The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize. She was decorated by the French and Belgian governments for her contributions to war-relief, and received an honorary degree from Yale in 1923, her last trip to the United States. Wharton died of a stroke at Pavillon Colombe, her house in the Paris suburb of Saint-Brice-sous-Fortt, leaving an unfinished novel, The Buccaneers. She is buried at the Cimetire des Gonards at Versailles.
ELAINE SHOWALTER is Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and the author of A Literature of Their Own and Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing. A frequent contributor of reviews and essays for the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, she is currently working on a book about feminist intellectuals.
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OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
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Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter
Oxford World's Classics
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Wharton, Edith, 18621937. Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton; edited with an introduction by Elaine Showalter. (The World's classics) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). 1. Married peopleNew EnglandFiction. 2. Rural poorNew EnglandFiction. 3. Farm lifeNew EnglandFiction. 4. New EnglandSocial life and customsFiction. I. Showalter, Elaine. II. Series. PS3545.H16E7 1996 813'.52dc20 95-52206
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