Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton - ISBN: 9780142437803
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Frozen hearts, forbidden love, and a tragic collision with fate.

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    1 November 2005

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Summary

Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions.

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie’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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780142437803
ISBN-10:0142437808
Author:Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:1 November 2005
Weight:112g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 10mm
Series:Penguin Classics
About The Author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, a historical romance called The Valley of Decision, in 1902. The book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth, published in 1905. She died in 1937.

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