Ethan Frome, English edition (Oxford World’s Classics) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199538093 ISBN 13: 9780199538096

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

`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 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.
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Elaine Showalter is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Sister's Choice (OPB, 1994) and editor of Du Maurier's Trilby (OPF, 1995).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199538093
• ISBN 13: 9780199538096
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Herausgeber: Showalter Elaine
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