Ethan Frome (Wisehouse Classics Edition - With an Introduction by Edith Wharton) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9176372308 ISBN 13: 9789176372302

Publisher: Wisehouse Classics, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Wisehouse Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9176372308
• ISBN 13: 9789176372302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102
• Editor: Vaseghi Sam