Ethan Frome

'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 least characteristic 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 0199538093   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780199538096 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 123 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192834966 Publication date 13 Nov 2008   Height (mm) 196 Library of Congress 2009291020   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 813.52   Spine width (mm) 9 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 160   Alternative ISBN 9781931056793

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