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 It will only take you the afternoon, but it’s shocking snowy ending will leave you pondering it for days. Is contained inThree Classics By American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers ( Bantam Classics) by Kate Chopin Ethan Frome / Summer / Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton Ethan Frome and Other Short Stories by Edith Wharton Ethan Frome [Norton Critical Editions] by Edith Wharton Works Of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence | House of Mirth | Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Edith Wharton: Three Complete Novels by Edith Wharton Ethan Frome / Summer by Edith Wharton The Edith Wharton omnibus by Edith Wharton Wharton: Four Novels (Library of America College Editions) by Edith Wharton Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton Has the adaptationHas as a student's study guide
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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.
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 novel.
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)
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Penguin Australia4 editions of this book were published by Penguin Australia.
Editions: 0142437808, 0451531310, 0143105930, 0141389400
Tantor Media2 editions of this book were published by Tantor Media.
Editions: 1400100631, 1400108527
Recorded BooksAn edition of this book was published by Recorded Books.
Urban Romantics2 editions of this book were published by Urban Romantics.
Editions: 1909438847, 1909438855
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I found this charmer about doomed, wasted lives, forbidden passion, and deathwish tobogganing in the bleakest patch of late 19th century New England to be more fun when I read the dialogue aloud in an old-timey Yankee accent.
The ending is a bang-up twist.
I enjoyed it, but I’m ready to read about rich people’s problems again. (