Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton - ISBN: 9780451531315
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Forbidden love in stark New England: passion, duty, and destruction.

Ethan Frome

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  • Paperback

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    7 December 2011

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Summary

A masterwork of American literature from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence.

A marked departure from Edith Wharton’s usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife’s young cousin. Trapped by the bonds of marriage and the fear…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780451531315
ISBN-10:0451531310
Author:Edith Wharton
Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:Signet Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:7 December 2011
Weight:95g
Dimensions:172mm x 105mm
About The Author

Edith Wharton

Edith Jones Wharton (1862-1937) was born in New York City into a family of merchants, bankers, and lawyers. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton of Boston. They shared a love of travel, while maintaining a home she designed, The Mount, in Lenox, MA. After their divorce in 1913, Edith Wharton settled in Paris. Throughout World War I, she was active in relief work, including raising tens of thousands of dollars for the war effort and opening tuberculosis hospitals, and in 1916, she was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor for her service to her adopted country. Her novels include The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913), Summer (1917) and most famously The Age of Innocence (1920), which made her the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

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