Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton

  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 1922 This is a tragic 19th century love story. The main characters are Ethan Frome, his wife Zenobia, called Zeena, and her young cousin Mattie Silver. Frome and Zeena marry after she nurses his mother in her last illness. Although Frome seems ambitious and intelligent, Zeena holds him back. When her young cousin Mattie comes to stay on their New England farm, Frome falls in love with her. But the social conventions of the day doom their love and their hopes. The story forcefully conveys Wharton's abhorrence of society's unbending standards of loyalty. Written while Wharton lived in France but before her divorce (1913), Ethan Frome became one of the best known and most popular of her works. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 1995 Textual notes and critical essays accompany the tale of a New England farmer who must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for her cousin.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 1998-06-04 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 2007-09 Ethan Frome, a novel by Edith Wahrton, is told by an unnamed narrator who recounts an encounter with Ethan Frome in a wintry town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The story delves into Ethan Frome's attempt of escaping his small town upbringing and pursuing his dream career in science, until his parents illness' force him to return. Ethan meets a love interest, Zeena, in his time back home and also deals with his illnesses related to hypochondria.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 2016-12-10 Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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.Ethan Frome is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. His initial impressions are based on his observations of Frome going about his mundane tasks in Starkfield, and something about him catches the eye and curiosity of the visitor, but no one in the town seems interested in revealing many details about the man or his history - or perhaps they are not able to. The narrator ultimately finds himself in the position of staying overnight at Frome's house in order to escape a winter storm, and from there he observes Frome and his private circumstances, which he shares and which triggers other people in town to be more forthcoming with their own knowledge and impressions. The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The prologue, which is neither named as such nor numbered, opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield while in the area on business. He spots a limping, quiet man around the village, who is somehow compelling in his demeanor and carriage. This is Ethan Frome, who is a local fixture of the community, having been a lifelong resident. Frome is described as the most striking figure in Starkfield, the ruin of a man with a careless powerful look...in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain. Curious, the narrator sets out to learn about him. He learns that Frome's limp arose from having been injured in a smash-up twenty-four years before, but further details are not forthcoming, and the narrator fails to learn much more from Frome's fellow townspeople other than that Ethan's attempt at higher education decades before was thwarted by the sudden illness of his father following an injury, forcing his return to the farm to assist his parents, never to leave again. Because people seem to not wish to speak other than in vague and general terms about Frome's past, the narrator's curiosity grows, but he learns little more.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Edith Wharton, 2014-05-15 I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. If you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade: and you must have asked who he was. It was there that, several years ago, I saw him for the first time; and the sight pulled me up sharp. Even then he was the most striking figure in Starkfield, though he was but the ruin of a man. It was not so much his great height that marked him, for the natives were easily singled out by their lank longitude from the stockier foreign breed: it was the careless powerful look he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain. There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so stiffened and grizzled that I took him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two. I had this from Harmon Gow, who had driven the stage from Bettsbridge to Starkfield in pre-trolley days and knew the chronicle of all the families on his line.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Edith Wharton, 2016-04-08 Why buy our paperbacks? Unabridged (100% Original content) Printed in USA on High Quality Paper 30 Days Money Back Guarantee Standard Font size of 10 for all books Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping BEWARE OF LOW-QUALITY SELLERS Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. About Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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.Ethan Frome is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. His initial impressions are based on his observations of Frome going about his mundane tasks in Starkfield, and something about him catches the eye and curiosity of the visitor, but no one in the town seems interested in revealing many details about the man or his history - or perhaps they are not able to. The narrator ultimately finds himself in the position of staying overnight at Frome's house in order to escape a winter storm, and from there he observes Frome and his private circumstances, which he shares and which triggers other people in town to be more forthcoming with their own knowledge and impressions. The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The prologue, which is neither named as such nor numbered, opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield while in the area on business. He spots a limping, quiet man around the village, who is somehow compelling in his demeanor and carriage. This is Ethan Frome, who is a local fixture of the community, having been a lifelong resident. Frome is described as the most striking figure in Starkfield, the ruin of a man with a careless powerful look...in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain. Curious, the narrator sets out to learn about him. He learns that Frome's limp arose from having been injured in a smash-up twenty-four years before, but further details are not forthcoming, and the narrator fails to learn much more from Frome's fellow townspeople other than that Ethan's attempt at higher education decades before was thwarted by the sudden illness of his father following an injury, forcing his return to the farm to assist his parents, never to leave again. Because people seem to not wish to speak other than in vague and general terms about Frome's past, the narrator's curiosity grows, but he learns little more.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 2016-10-27 Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome Suzanne J. Fournier, 2006-04-30 A patrician who wrote most often of the fashionable 19th-century New York society she knew so well, Edith Wharton was inspired to write the novel Ethan Frome after spending summers at her home in Lenox, Massachusetts. Born during the Civil War and dying near the start of World War II, Wharton experienced the transformation of American society from a rural republic to an industrial power. Her experiences are reflected in her writing, and Ethan Frome is widely studied at all levels. This book is a systematic introduction to her novel. The guide draws upon Wharton's autobiography and letters to trace her literary and artistic development. In addition to a detailed plot summary, the book gives special attention to the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne and other writers on her work. It also analyzes Wharton's style and themes and overviews the critical reception of her novel.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton "The Annotated Classic Edition" Edith Wharton, 2020-08-09 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome (1911). By: Edith Wharton Edith Wharton, 2017-01-11 Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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.Ethan Frome is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. His initial impressions are based on his observations of Frome going about his mundane tasks in Starkfield, and something about him catches the eye and curiosity of the visitor, but no one in the town seems interested in revealing many details about the man or his history - or perhaps they are not able to. The narrator ultimately finds himself in the position of staying overnight at Frome's house in order to escape a winter storm, and from there he observes Frome and his private circumstances, which he shares and which triggers other people in town to be more forthcoming with their own knowledge and impressions.[2] The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The prologue, which is neither named as such nor numbered, opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield while in the area on business. He spots a limping, quiet man around the village, who is somehow compelling in his demeanor and carriage. This is Ethan Frome, who is a local fixture of the community, having been a lifelong resident. Frome is described as the most striking figure in Starkfield, the ruin of a man with a careless powerful look...in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain. Curious, the narrator sets out to learn about him. He learns that Frome's limp arose from having been injured in a smash-up twenty-four years before, but further details are not forthcoming, and the narrator fails to learn much more from Frome's fellow townspeople other than that Ethan's attempt at higher education decades before was thwarted by the sudden illness of his father following an injury, forcing his return to the farm to assist his parents, never to leave again. Because people seem not to wish to speak other than in vague and general terms about Frome's past, the narrator's curiosity grows, but he learns little more. Chance circumstances arise that allow the narrator to hire Frome as his driver for a week. A severe snowstorm during one of their journeys forces Frome to allow the narrator to shelter at his home one night. Just as the two are entering Frome's house, the prologue ends. We then embark on the first chapter (Chapter I), which takes place twenty-four years prior. The narration switches from the first-person narrator of the prologue to a limited third-person narrator.................. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City. She had two much older brothers, Frederic Rhinelander, who was sixteen, and Henry Edward, who was eleven. She was baptized April 20, 1862, Easter Sunday, at Grace Church. To her friends and family she was known as Pussy Jones. The saying keeping up with the Joneses is said to refer to her father's family..................
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 1911 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
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome.by Edith Wharton, 2016-11-05 Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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. Ethan Frome is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. His initial impressions are based on his observations of Frome going about his mundane tasks in Starkfield, and something about him catches the eye and curiosity of the visitor, but no one in the town seems interested in revealing many details about the man or his history - or perhaps they are not able to. The narrator ultimately finds himself in the position of staying overnight at Frome's house in order to escape a winter storm, and from there he observes Frome and his private circumstances, which he shares and which triggers other people in town to be more forthcoming with their own knowledge and impressions.[2] The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The prologue, which is neither named as such nor numbered, opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield while in the area on business. He spots a limping, quiet man around the village, who is somehow compelling in his demeanor and carriage. This is Ethan Frome, who is a local fixture of the community, having been a lifelong resident. Frome is described as the most striking figure in Starkfield, the ruin of a man with a careless powerful look...in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain. Curious, the narrator sets out to learn about him. He learns that Frome's limp arose from having been injured in a smash-up twenty-four years before, but further details are not forthcoming, and the narrator fails to learn much more from Frome's fellow townspeople other than that Ethan's attempt at higher education decades before was thwarted by the sudden illness of his father following an injury, forcing his return to the farm to assist his parents, never to leave again. Because people seem not to wish to speak other than in vague and general terms about Frome's past, the narrator's curiosity grows, but he learns little more.... Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.[1] Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome (Wisehouse Classics Edition - With an Introduction by Edith Wharton) Edith Wharton, 2016-02-03 ETHAN FROME is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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. ETHAN FROME is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. His initial impressions are based on his observations of Frome going about his mundane tasks in Starkfield, and something about him catches the eye and curiosity of the visitor, but no one in the town seems interested in revealing many details about the man or his history-or perhaps they are not able to. The narrator ultimately finds himself in the position of staying overnight at Frome's house in order to escape a winter storm, and from there he observes Frome and his private circumstances, which he shares and which triggers other people in town to be more forthcoming with their own knowledge and impressions. Ethan Frome was written while Edith Wharton was living at The Mount, her home in Lenox, Massachusetts. Wharton likely based the story on an accident that she had heard about in 1904 in Lenox, Massachusetts. Five people total were involved in the real-life accident, four girls and one boy. a compelling and haunting story. -The New York Times ...after all, the tragedy unveiled to us is social rather than personal... Ethan Frome is to me above all else a judgment on that system which fails to redeem such villages as Mrs. Wharton's Starkfield. -Literary critic and author Edwin Bjorkman
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Annotated Edition Edith Wharton, 2020-12-16 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 2010-03-01 From first to last, poetry was part of Edith Wharton's writing life. Whilerarely (after early youth) her primary focus, it always served her as a medium for recording the most vivid impressions and emotions, an intimate journal of longings and regrets. Poetry was important to Wharton, writeseditor Louis Auchincloss, because it enabled her to express the deeply emotional side of her nature that she kept under such tight control, not only in her life but in the ordered sweep of her fiction. In later years her poetry also engaged with the public passions of wartime, as she found herself involved with the plight of Allied soldiers in France. Her first models were Romantic, but in the course of her life she absorbed the influences of Symbolism and Modernism; and throughout her poetic career she showed a care for form even in her most private utterances, as in the erotic ode Terminus, never published in her lifetime. This volume collects the bulk of Wharton's significant poetry, including much work previously uncollected or unpublished.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 2019-06-27 Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Edith Wharton, 2017-08-04 Let enjoy! your favorite classic book with nice matte cover.If you love reading books with a cup of tea or coffee on your holiday. This should be yours.Good day.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Illustrated Edition Edith Wharton, 2021-06-05 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
  ethan frome by edith wharton: ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton Annotated Edition Classics Edith Edith Wharton, 2021-09-29 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 1987 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Annotated Classic Edition Edith Wharton, 2021-06-27 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
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Bewitched Edith Wharton, 2019-02-15 “Bewitched” is a short story by Edith Warton, first published in 1926 in the collection “Here and Beyond”. The stories include ghost stories, character studies and social dramas set in Brittany, New England, and Morocco. Along with “The Young Gentleman”, “Bewitched” shows clear Gothic leanings, especially in its emphasis on architecture and the gradual revealing of secrets. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and designer. She is famous for using her intimate knowledge of aristocratic New York society to authentically portray life during the Gilded Age. She was the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Other notable works by this author include: “A Son at the Front” (1923), “The Mother's Recompense” (1925), and “Twilight Sleep” (1927). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Illustrated Edition Wharton, 2021-07-12 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
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Edith Wharton, 2021-05 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
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome (Global Classics) Edith Wharton, 2018-11 Ethan Frome is a book published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton:( Illustrated Edition) Charlotte Wharton, 2021-07-03 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
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Annotated and Illustrated Edition Edith Wharton, 2020-08-17 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 2024-02-02 Enter the world of forbidden love and hidden desires with Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Join her as she unveils a tale of passion, longing, and the devastating consequences of unfulfilled desires. As Wharton's haunting narrative unfolds, prepare to be drawn into the tragic tale of Ethan Frome, a man trapped in a loveless marriage and yearning for escape. Follow along as he navigates the complexities of desire and duty, torn between the woman he loves and the obligations that bind him. But amidst the quiet desperation and unspoken yearnings, a deeper truth emerges: What if the true cost of forbidden love is not just the pain of longing, but the loss of innocence and the shattering of lives? Prepare to explore the complexities of human emotion and the devastating consequences of societal expectations. Are you ready to immerse yourself in a tale of forbidden passion and the tragic consequences of unrequited love? Experience the power of Wharton's prose as she delves into the depths of human desire and longing. Whether you're a fan of classic literature or simply drawn to stories of love and loss, Ethan Frome offers a compelling exploration of the human heart. Will you dare to confront the forbidden desires and unspoken truths that lie at the heart of Ethan Frome's story? Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of Wharton's storytelling, where each page is filled with longing, regret, and the bittersweet ache of unfulfilled dreams. Whether you're witnessing the quiet desperation of small-town life or grappling with the complexities of moral ambiguity, prepare to be captivated by the timeless beauty and tragic elegance of Ethan Frome. Don't miss your chance to experience the power and poignancy of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Let her haunting tale of forbidden love and unfulfilled desires transport you to a world where passion knows no bounds, but the consequences can be devastating. Seize the opportunity to own a piece of literary history. Purchase Ethan Frome now and embark on a journey through the depths of human emotion and the complexities of forbidden love.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) Edith Wharton, 2017-07-17 This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Edith Wharton’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Wharton includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Wharton’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
  ethan frome by edith wharton: ETHAN FROME Edith Wharton Edith Wharton, 2020-03-06 An American novelist play writer and designer Edith Wharton published Ethan Frome In 1911. The book is set in fiction town of Starkfield, Massachusetts about an isolated farmer trying to live with his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife. We have formatted the book for an easy reading experience if you enjoy historic classic literary work.
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  ethan frome by edith wharton: The Smash-Up Ali Benjamin, 2021-02-23 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction Edith Wharton, 2007-09-25 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Afterward Edith Wharton, 2016-09-19 A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious stranger. When her husband disappears shortly after this eerie encounter, the wife learns the truth about the legend that haunts the ancient estate.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck, 2006-03-28 The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. This Centennial edition, specially designed to commemorate one hundred years of Steinbeck, features french flaps and deckle-edged pages. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 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.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton, 2008-02-05 These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. Summer, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to Ethan Frome-Wharton herself called it “the hot Ethan”-in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. Bunner Sisters takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late nineteenth-century New York City, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes. All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of our greatest writers.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 2009-06-02 A masterwork of American literature from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence. A marked departure from Edith Wharton’s usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife’s young cousin. Trapped by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, he is ultimately destroyed by that which offers him the greatest chance at happiness. Like The House of Mirth and many of Edith Wharton’s other novels, Ethan Frome centers on the power of local convention to smother the growth of the individual. Written with stark simplicity, this powerful and tragic novel has long been considered one of Wharton’s greatest works.
  ethan frome by edith wharton: The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton Edith Wharton, 2012-11-08 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.
Ethan Frome - Alma Books
If you know the post office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade – and …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Introduction I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. If you know Starkfield, …

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Published in 1911 )
Recognized as a timeless classic, Ethan Frome fits well into the classical canon of American Literature. Because it is a relatively early work, written 1911 by a female author, the novel …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 4 As soon as his wife had driven off Ethan took his coat and cap from the peg. Mattie was washing up the dishes, humming one of the dance tunes of …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 2 As the dancers poured out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled …

Ethan Frome - Public Library
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 Author's Note I had known something of New England village life long before I made my home in the same county as my imaginary Starkfield; though, …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 5 They finished supper, and while Mattie cleared the table Ethan went to look at the cows and then took a last turn about the house. The earth lay …

Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome - JSTOR
Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome Orlene Murad The enormous attention given to Edith Wharton's New England tale of Ethan Frome since the time of its publication in 1911 to today is based …

A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION Edith Wharton ETHAN FROME
The Text of Ethan Frome 1 Backgrounds and Contexts 75 Edith Wharton • "The Writing of Ethan Frome" 77 Edith Wharton • A Backward Glance 78 Edith Wharton • [On Ethan Frome's …

Ethan Frome - PdfCorner.com
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 1 The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his …

ETHAN FROME By Edith Wharton - Story Grid
ETHAN FROME By Edith Wharton They had reached the top of School House Hill and Starkfield lay below them in the twilight. A cutter, mounting the road from the village, passed them by in …

Imaginative Encounter: Edith Wharton and Emily Brontë - JSTOR
Imaginative Encounter: Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte by Jean Blackall Frantz Cornell University Interpreters have commonly associated the theme and tone of Ethan Frome with …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 6 The next morning at breakfast Jotham Powell was between them, and Ethan tried to hide his joy under an air of exaggerated indifference, …

A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton
With Ethan Frome (1911), described as "a psychological coming of age" (p. 191), Wharton achieves for the first time a partial mastery of her self and a final command of her medium.

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 3 There was some hauling to be done at the lower end of the wood-lot, and Ethan was out early the next day. The winter morning was as clear as …

“Rich in Pathological Instances” - JSTOR
This article examines how and why Edith Wharton’s representations of disability played a key role in shaping the early interpretive community’s reactions to Ethan Frome. Several reviews …

Naturalistic Color in Edith Wharton‟s Ethan Frome - Academy …
Her first novel Ethan Frome vividly describes the miserable situation of the poor who are living in the New England town. This paper discusses family misfortune, poverty and the restriction of …

ETHAN FROME - Archive.org
If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade: and you …

Ethan Frome - Archive.org
If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade: and you …

Ethan Frome - Alma Books
If you know the post office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade – and …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Introduction I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. If you know Starkfield, …

Ethan Frome - Archive.org
INTRODUCTION constructionwhichmetwiththeimmediateand unqualifieddisapprovalofthefewfriendstowhom ItentativelyoutlineditIstillthinkjustifiedinthe …

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Published in 1911 )
Recognized as a timeless classic, Ethan Frome fits well into the classical canon of American Literature. Because it is a relatively early work, written 1911 by a female author, the novel …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 4 As soon as his wife had driven off Ethan took his coat and cap from the peg. Mattie was washing up the dishes, humming one of the dance tunes of the …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 2 As the dancers poured out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled …

Ethan Frome - Public Library
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 Author's Note I had known something of New England village life long before I made my home in the same county as my imaginary Starkfield; though, during the …

Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome - JSTOR
Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome Orlene Murad The enormous attention given to Edith Wharton's New England tale of Ethan Frome since the time of its publication in 1911 to today is based partly …

Ethan Frome - PdfCorner.com
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 1 The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 6 The next morning at breakfast Jotham Powell was between them, and Ethan tried to hide his joy under an air of exaggerated indifference, lounging …

A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION Edith Wharton ETHAN FROME
The Text of Ethan Frome 1 Backgrounds and Contexts 75 Edith Wharton • "The Writing of Ethan Frome" 77 Edith Wharton • A Backward Glance 78 Edith Wharton • [On Ethan Frome's …

Imaginative Encounter: Edith Wharton and Emily Brontë - JSTOR
Imaginative Encounter: Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte by Jean Blackall Frantz Cornell University Interpreters have commonly associated the theme and tone of Ethan Frome with events in Edith …

A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton
With Ethan Frome (1911), described as "a psychological coming of age" (p. 191), Wharton achieves for the first time a partial mastery of her self and a final command of her medium.

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 5 They finished supper, and while Mattie cleared the table Ethan went to look at the cows and then took a last turn about the house. The earth lay dark …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 3 There was some hauling to be done at the lower end of the wood-lot, and Ethan was out early the next day. The winter morning was as clear as crystal. …

“Rich in Pathological Instances” - JSTOR
This article examines how and why Edith Wharton’s representations of disability played a key role in shaping the early interpretive community’s reactions to Ethan Frome. Several reviews converge …

Naturalistic Color in Edith Wharton‟s Ethan Frome - Academy …
Her first novel Ethan Frome vividly describes the miserable situation of the poor who are living in the New England town. This paper discusses family misfortune, poverty and the restriction of social …

Ethan Frome - Educational Technology Clearinghouse
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton Chapter 8 When Ethan was called back to the farm by his father’s illness his mother gave him, for his own use, a small room behind the untenanted “best parlour.” …