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Ethan Frome
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 25/10/2012

  • ISBN: 9780141389400

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 100g

  • RRP: £4.99

Ethan Frome

  • Series: The Penguin English Library

Edith Wharton

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena'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.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 25/10/2012

  • ISBN: 9780141389400

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 100g

  • RRP: £4.99


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About the Author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on 24th January 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, The Valley of Decision, in 1902. Her most famous work, The House of Mirth, was published in 1905. She died in 1937.

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