Download or read book Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction written by Edith Wharton and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity. Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, “The Last Asset,” “The Other Two,” and “Xingu.” Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of America’s finest writers.
Download or read book Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Frome is a 1912 novel set in New England. It is a story of a doomed love triangle between Ethan Frome, his wife and their housekeeper. Given the social conventions of the time, Ethan Frome feels he must stay, trapped in a loveless marriage, rather than pursue his true feelings. The tension builds slowly to a dramatic and classically ironic ending in one of Wharton's best stories.
Download or read book Wharton s New England written by Edith Wharton and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of betrayal, folly, and moral fervor acted out against a stark New England backdrop.
Download or read book Selected Stories written by Alice Munro and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Stories. This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.
Download or read book Ethan Frome and Other Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by Running Press Book Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains four stories by Edith Wharton plus an essay by Harold Bloom.
Download or read book Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Frome, On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of harsh resistance. Tied by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until Mattie Silver, his wife's orphaned cousin, arrives and is tempted to make one last desperate effort to escape. of your destiny. In sober, passionate and enduring language, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable tale of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the relentless forces of conscience and need.
Download or read book The muse s tragedy written by Edith Wharton and published by phonereader. This book was released on 2001 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summer written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first novels to deal honestly with a woman's sexual awakening, "Summer" created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ethan Frome" shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
Download or read book Ethan Frome and Selected Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by Digireads.Com. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is married to a hypochondriac, but is in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie; and includes four additional short stories by Edith Wharton.
Download or read book The New York Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 20 short stories and novellas offer an exquisite portrait of Old New York, spanning from the Civil War through the Gilded Age (New York Times). “Edith Wharton . . . remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York.” —New York Times Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcées struggling to hold their own. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged. Illuminated by Roxana Robinson’s introduction, these stories showcase Wharton’s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.
Download or read book Bunner Sisters written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book The Smash Up written by Ali Benjamin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart, sublime, and wickedly clever, The Smash-Up captures—then transcends—our current polarized moment “An exhilarating ride . . . hilarious . . . a modern and energetic story about a marriage on the skids.”—The New York Times Ethan has always been one of the good guys, and for years, nobody has appreciated this fact more than his wife, Zo. Until now. Jolted into activism by the 2016 election, Zo’s transformed their home into the headquarters for the local resistance, turning their comfortable decades-long marriage inside-out. Meanwhile, their boisterous daughter, Alex, grows wilder by the day. Ethan’s former business partner needs help saving the media company they’d co-founded. Financial disaster looms. Enter a breezy, blue-haired millennial making her way through the gig economy. Suddenly Ethan faces a choice unlike any he’s ever had to make. Unfolding over fivet urbulent days in 2018, The Smash-Up wrestles shrewdly with some of the biggest questions of our time: What, exactly, does it mean to be a good guy? What will it take for men to break the “bro code”? How does the world respond when a woman demands more? Can we ever understand another's experiences… and what are the consequences of failing to try? Moving, funny, and cathartic, this portrait of a marriage—and a nation—under strain is, ultimately, a magic trick of empathy, one that will make you laugh and squirm until its final, breathless pages.
Download or read book The House at Midnight written by Lucie Whitehouse and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An atmospheric, menacing tale of secrets and suspense, set in a seemingly idyllic Cotswolds manor house 'Deliciously sinister' Daily Mail 'Murder and mayhem will keep you turning the pages long past midnight. If you liked The Secret History, you'll love this' Harper's Bazaar 'Gripping and tense, with an atmosphere which holds you in thrall' Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black From the beginning, the house changed everything... Lucas. Joanna. Martha. Michael. Danny. Rachel. Best friends since college, they are brought together at beautiful Stoneborough Manor when Lucas inherits it following the suicide of his beloved uncle. But over the course of a hot, decadent summer, what begins as an idyllic retreat from the pressures of adult life is transformed into a place where secrets are revealed, sexual tensions escalate and friendships and sanity unravel – beyond repair.
Download or read book The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This haunting anthology is an enthralling collection of chilling tales infused with Edith Wharton's masterful exploration of human psychology and the hidden recesses of the human heart. As a keen observer of human nature, Wharton weaves her ghostly tales with remarkable subtlety and psychological depth. Her ghosts are not mere apparitions but poignant manifestations of guilt, regret, and unrequited desires. Through her elegant prose and sharp wit, Wharton delves into the darkest corners of the human psyche, exploring themes of forbidden passions, societal constraints, and the persistent power of the past. Each setting serves as the backdrop for chilling encounters with the spectral realm. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton is a testament to Wharton's versatility as a writer. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, she imbues her tales with atmospheric tension, challenging the reader to question what lies beyond our mortal existence.
Download or read book White River Red written by Becky Marietta and published by TouchPoint Press. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a true story, White River Red: A Novel vividly portrays the tumults and triumphs of a rough, generous soul who touched countless lives with her kindness and courage. In 1906, fifteen-year-old Forrestina Bradley runs away from her stifling life of ease and joins the circus as a tightrope walker. After a tragedy forces her to leave the circus, she embarks on a life of nomadic adventure, running a carnival rat-game and becoming involved in an illegal dance hall and moonshine business near the banks of the White River in Arkansas during Prohibition. Along the way, she meets and loves three men—Max, Jack, and George—who each break her heart in vastly different ways. It’s a good thing that Forrestina is tough enough to survive the men in her life. Tough enough to become a legend. In 1972, Betty, a young reporter desperate to break into the boys’ club of journalism, offers to interview the now-elderly Forrestina. What she discovers in Forrestina’s story is a lesson of strength, resilience, friendship, and faith. She learns that though defying normal is often painful, for some brave souls it’s the only way to truly live.
Download or read book The Touchstone written by Edith Wharton and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penniless and unable to marry the woman he loves, the financially struggling lawyer Stephen Glennard discovers a way out of his predicaments by selling love letters written to him by deceased author Margaret Aubyn.
Download or read book Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic short novel of love, deceit, and tragedy, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton has been breaking hearts and shocking readers for over a century. Ethan Frome is a ruin of a man, aged and limping. Alienated from the other residents of desolate Starkfield, Massachusetts, he can barely draw a living from the stony soil of his family farm. For twenty-four years, Frome has held a secret in his heart: he loved not his waspish wife Zeena, but her young cousin Mattie, whom Zeena depended on for care. When an enigmatic newcomer arrives in Starkfield one frigid winter and takes pity on Frome, the tragic twist of Frome’s love and desire, and the reason for his crippling injuries, are set to be revealed. Ethan Frome is a classic tragic love story. The inability of Ethan and Mattie to articulate their feelings save through gestures—as small as a broken plate, as large as a horrific accident—speak to the power of author Edith Wharton’s gimlet eye. And the reversal of fortune in the denouement continues to shake readers over a century after it was written. Adapted as a film starring Liam Neeson and Particia Arquette in 1993, Ethan Frome has broken the hearts of generations of readers. The Mint Editions version of Ethan Frome features expressive cover art and contemporary typesetting, making it a fine addition to any bookshelf.
