Ethan Frome: A Snowbound New England Tale of Forbidden Love, Marital Entrapment, and Bleak Psychological Realism - Couverture souple

Wharton, Edith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8028524419 ISBN 13 : 9788028524418

Editeur : Copycat, 2026

Synopsis

Set in the stark winters of rural Massachusetts, Ethan Frome is a tragic novella that distills Edith Wharton's mastery of psychological realism and social observation. Framed through an outsider's reconstruction of past events, the novel traces Ethan's desolate marriage to the embittered Zeena and his forbidden attachment to her vibrant cousin, Mattie Silver. Wharton's prose is spare yet intensely evocative, using the frozen New England landscape as both setting and symbol of emotional paralysis, frustrated desire, and moral entrapment. In its naturalist attention to circumstance and limitation, the book stands as a powerful early twentieth-century study of duty, isolation, and the crushing force of social and economic constraint. Edith Wharton, born into New York's aristocratic society, brought to her fiction a penetrating understanding of class, convention, and the hidden costs of repression. Although best known for novels of upper-class manners, she drew here on her familiarity with New England and on her broader literary interest in lives shaped by environment and custom. Her disciplined craftsmanship and ironic intelligence make Ethan Frome one of her most haunting achievements. This is a book for readers who value brevity joined to emotional and symbolic depth. Ethan Frome rewards close reading as both a compelling tragedy and a subtle critique of the worlds that imprison human longing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Copycat
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8028524419
• ISBN 13: 9788028524418
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
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• Personne responsable: non disponible