The World's Classics: Ethan Frome - Couverture souple

Wharton, Edith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192825151 ISBN 13 : 9780192825155

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1996

Synopsis

`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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elaine Showalter is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Sister's Choice (OPB, 1994) and editor of Du Maurier's Trilby (OPF, 1995).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192825151
• ISBN 13: 9780192825155
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Éditeur: Showalter Elaine
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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