Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells 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 its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
- ISBN10 0764191594
- ISBN13 9780764191596
- Publish Date 1 January 1985
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint TBS The Book Service Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 132
- Language English