![]() ![]() The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio towards their tragic destinies. 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. 'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'Įthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome Background Summary Full Book Summary Finding himself laid up in the small New England town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn about the life of a mysterious local named Ethan Frome, who had a tragic accident some twenty years earlier. As part of America's privileged class, Edith Wharton was well-acquainted with many public. ![]() ![]() The Joneses were a wealthy New York family and one of Wharton's biographers claims that the phrase 'Keeping up with the Joneses' is in reference to her father's family. The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton The novelist known as Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was born as Edith Newbold Jones. ![]()
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