Ethan Frome (The Penguin English Library)

Edith Wharton

ISBN 10: 0141389400 / ISBN 13: 9780141389400

Verlag: Penguin Classics 2012-10-25, 2012

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-GRD-9780141389400

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• Titel: Ethan Frome (The Penguin English Library)
• Verlag: Penguin Classics 2012-10-25
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0141389400
• ISBN-13: 9780141389400
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

'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, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio towards their tragic destinies.

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Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.