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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in "Penguin Classics". Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics
Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband's feelings for Mattie go beyond simple affection, and tha ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift S.
From the author of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. Set in New England, a farmer struggles to survive a bare existence, tethered to his farm, first by his helpless parents and then by a hypochondriac wife. Yet, when his wife's alluring cousin comes to stay, his dreams are rekindled.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Ze ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction
Nineteenth-century New England villager Ethan Frome is tormented by his love for his ailing wife's cousin. Trapped, he may ultimately be destroyed by that which offers his greatest chance at happiness. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the ...Show more
Ghosts - Stories by Edith Wharton
Category: Fiction
An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself. No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton's most dedicated admirers are unaware that she was a master o ...Show more
Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Blues Ser.
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounte ...Show more