by Edith Wharton · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192834966
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«Ethan Frome» is the short novel by Edith Wharton, published by Oxford University Press España, S.A. in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The novel is set in a New England winter and follows Ethan Frome, a farmer trapped in an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, Zeena. The arrival of Mattie Silver, Zeena's cousin, awakens in Ethan an obsession and the hope of an unattainable happiness, and leads the three toward a tragic fate.
Published in 1998 in the Oxford World's Classics series. This edition includes an introduction by Elaine Showalter, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes.
For students of English literature and readers of classic fiction; the critical apparatus facilitates academic 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.
