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`It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.'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 leastcharacteristic 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.

ISBN-13

9780192834966

ISBN-10

0192834967

Weight

0.25 Pounds

Dimensions

5.00 x 0.25 x 7.75 In

List Price

$8.95

Format

-

Language

English

Pages

160 pages

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published On

1998-11-19



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