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Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in love with her visiting cousin, the vivacious Mattie Silver. As Mattie is forced to leave his household, Frome steals one last afternoon with her—one that culminates in a ruinous sled ride with unspeakably tragic results.

Unhappily married herself, Edith Wharton projected her dark views of love onto people far removed from her social class in Ethan Frome. Her sensitivity to natural beauty and human psychology, however, make this slim novel a convincing and compelling portrait of rural life. A powerful tale of passion and loss—and the wretched consequences thereof—Ethan Frome is one of American literatures great tragic love stories.

Also included in this volume are four of Edith Wharton’s finest short stories: “The Pretext,” “Afterward,” “The Legend,” and “Xingu.”

Kent P. Ljungquist, Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author of The Grand and the Fair: Poe’s Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques, co-editor of the SUNY Press edition of James Fenimore Coopers The Deerslayer, and editor of several reference works of American fiction.

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Release dateJun 1, 2009
ISBN9781411432154
Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

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    In addition to the novella Ethan Frome, this collection includes the stories "The Pretext," "Afterward," "The Legend," and "Xingu." I have to admit to being quite bored by "the Pretext." Luckily, the other stories were all great. Wharton has a gift for language, and a knack for manipulating situations and story lines to achieve interesting results. The last two stories, "the Legend" and "Xingu," were unexpectedly funny. "Xingu" is a must-read for anyone who has ever attended a book club meeting.

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