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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141389400Number of pages: 128Weight: 101 gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 8 mm
Edith Wharton
An expert chronicler of upper class American society at the turn of the twentieth century,Edith Wharton was the author of numerous acclaimed novels,including The House of Mirth,The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome.
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