Ethan Frome |
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Author:
| Wharton, Edith |
Editor:
| Naney, C. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4664-4422-5 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $5.65 |
Book Description:
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For a novel written over a century ago, ETHAN FROME reads remarkably like a novel written today. Set in rural, snowy New England, it is a timeless and tragic tale. The title character and the young woman he has grown to care for make a desperate decision. How they arrived at the point of that decision and the enormous consequences that result are the subject of the novel. Edith Wharton, is recognized as a major figure of American literature. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for her 1920...
More DescriptionFor a novel written over a century ago, ETHAN FROME reads remarkably like a novel written today. Set in rural, snowy New England, it is a timeless and tragic tale. The title character and the young woman he has grown to care for make a desperate decision. How they arrived at the point of that decision and the enormous consequences that result are the subject of the novel. Edith Wharton, is recognized as a major figure of American literature. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for her 1920 novel THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, she was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born into elite New York society, she became internationally recognized for her stories of the upper-classes. In ETHAN FROME she has created a classic novel of the common classes of rural America.