Download or read book ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton Annotated Edition Classics written by Edith Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle. Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to an older woman. Frome is emotionally stirred by the arrival of a youthful cousin who is employed as household help. Mattie's presence not only brightens a gloomy house but stirs long-dormant feelings in Ethan. Their growing love for one another, discovered by an embittered wife, presages an ending to this grim tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic.
Download or read book ETHAN FROME By Edith Wharton Annotated Edition Classics Original written by Edith Wharton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle. Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to an older woman. Frome is emotionally stirred by the arrival of a youthful cousin who is employed as household help. Mattie's presence not only brightens a gloomy house but stirs long-dormant feelings in Ethan. Their growing love for one another, discovered by an embittered wife, presages an ending to this grim tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic.
Download or read book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Annotated Edition written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Frome was published in 1911, when Wharton was already an established and successful writer. She lived primarily in Paris between 1905 and the outbreak of World War II, and these years were productive. She was growing more self-assured in her art, and during the writing of Ethan Frome she felt control and confidence than she had never known before.
Download or read book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton The Annotated Classic Edition written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Frome is a masterwork From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, Ethan Frome is a poor farmer, trapped in a marriage to a demanding and controlling wife, Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie enters their household she opens a window of hope in Ethan's bleak life, but his wife's reaction prompts a desperate attempt to escape fate that goes horribly wrong. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Ethan Frome is an unforgettable story with the force of myth, featuring realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured.
Download or read book Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton and published by New York : C. Scribner. This book was released on 1911 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Annotated Classic Edition written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book
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 by Edith Wharton Annotated and Illustrated Edition written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Frome was published in 1911, when Wharton was already an established and successful writer. She lived primarily in Paris between 1905 and the outbreak of World War II, and these years were productive. She was growing more self-assured in her art, and during the writing of Ethan Frome she felt control and confidence than she had never known before.
Download or read book Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion.
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Download or read book Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993
Download or read book Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-06-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenieas vivacious cousin enters their household as a ahired girl, a Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fictionas finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Whartonas other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read novel.
Download or read book The Touchstone written by Edith Wharton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains Edith Wharton's first novella and the second book she ever wrote, 'The Touchstone'. This narrative follows Stephen Glennard, a young man whose destitution leads him into a dubious money-making scheme which he embarks on so that he can afford to marry the woman he loves. After seeing an advertisement seeking any papers or correspondences related to a recently deceased author that he had been in communication with, he snaps up the opportunity. A tale of how social strata, money, and self-deprecation can impact love, 'The Touchstone' is well worth a read and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Wharton's prolific work. This classic text has been chosen for its immense literary value, and we are proud to republish it here, complete with a new introductory biography of the author. Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
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Download or read book Three Novels of New York written by Edith Wharton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in fiction that often hinges on the collision of personal passion and social convention. This volume brings together her best-loved novels, all set in New York. The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, who needs a rich husband but refuses to marry without both love and money. The Custom of the Country follows the marriages and affairs of Undine Spragg, who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence concerns the passionate bond that develops between the newly engaged Newland Archer and his finacée's cousin, the Countess Olenska, new to New York and newly divorced. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton and published by Alan Rodgers Books. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethan Frome is a tale remembered because exactly it speaks to something inside so many of us. It's the tale of an old man, shriveled at the heart -- and how he got to be that way. It's a tale of love conflicted and compounded -- a tale of tragedy and a lifetime of its aftermath. ETHAN FROME
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