by Edith Wharton · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621891
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«Ethan Frome» is the classic novel by American writer Edith Wharton, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (144 pages, in English).
Ethan Frome is a farmer trapped in an unhappy marriage with Zeena, a sickly woman, in the isolated village of Starkfield. When Mattie Silver, Zeena's cousin, arrives at the house as a domestic helper, Ethan glimpses a happiness that clashes with his duty; a story of repression, despair, and adverse decisions.
The novel was originally published in 1911; this edition is part of the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For readers of American literary classics; also used as school reading.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
