Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Warton, Edith

ISBN 10: 0143105930 / ISBN 13: 9780143105930

Published by Warton, Edith, New York, 2009

About this Item

First printing. Introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons. Front and back cover and flaps illustrated by Jeffrey Brown. Also includes French fold flaps. Slight bumping to corners else a clean unmarked copy. Book.

Seller Inventory # 12109

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
• Publisher: Warton, Edith, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143105930
• ISBN 13: 9780143105930
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Brown, Jeffrey
• Edition: First edition thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

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 towards their tragic destinies.

About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born into a distinguished New York family, became a celebrated American novelist and published more than forty volumes consisting of novels, stories, verse, essays, travel books and memoirs. Elizabeth Ammons is Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature at tufts University. She lives in Medford, Massachusetts. Jeffrey Brown is a comic book writer and artist who won an Ignatz Award in 2003 for his mini-comic I Am Going to Be Small.