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Ethan Frome

"Ethan Frome" is an entrancing but sad story of a poverty-stricken Massachusetts farmer caught in a loveless marriage. An emerging love for his young cousin leads to one day of explosive emotions with tragic consequences. Though Edith Wharton is best known for "The age of innocence" and "The buccaneers", Ethan Frome is perhaps her most perfect novel.

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  • ""Ethan Frome" is an entrancing but sad story of a poverty-stricken Massachusetts farmer caught in a loveless marriage. An emerging love for his young cousin leads to one day of explosive emotions with tragic consequences. Though Edith Wharton is best known for "The age of innocence" and "The buccaneers", Ethan Frome is perhaps her most perfect novel."@en
  • ""Ethan Frome is a lonely farmer trying to make a living while also tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife Zeena. Hope enters Ethan's life of despair when his wife's cousin Mattie arrives to help. His life is transformed as he falls in love Mattie but their fate is doomed by the oppressive principles of that era"--Publisher's summary."@en
  • ""Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion"--Publisher's web site."@en
  • "Probably the most famous of Edith Wharton's novels, "Ethan Frome" contrasts sharply with her usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged and whose strengths and weaknesses she understood so well. "Ethan Frome" is a keenly-etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. Ethan, a gaunt, patient New Englander, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his wife's young cousin, Mattie. Restricted by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, his desperate quest for happiness ultimately leads to pain and despair. Ethan's story, with its tragic implications of what might have been, has had an irresistible fascination for readers over the last 80 years."@en
  • "A novella of tragedy, irony and repression, set in rural New England in the early 1900s. This is the tale of a farmer who weds a domineering woman then falls in love with her poor but pretty cousin."@en
  • "A novella of tragedy, irony and repression, set in rural New England in the early 1900s. This is the tale of a farmer who weds a domineering woman then falls in love with her poor but pretty cousin."
  • "Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion. Perhaps reflective of Wharton's own loveless marriage, this sophisticated, star-crossed love story vividly depicts her abhorrence of society's relentless standards of loyalty. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most popular and best-known works."@en
  • "A discouraged New England farmer, his hypochondriac wife and a girl who still finds some joy in living are the main characters in this grim tale of retribution."
  • "A discouraged New England farmer, his hypochondriac wife and a girl who still finds some joy in living are the main characters in this grim tale of retribution."@en
  • "In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves an ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies."@en
  • "In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves an ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies."
  • "Ethan Frome is a lonely farmer trying to make a living while also tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife Zeena. Hope enters Ethan's life of despair when his wife's cousin Mattie arrives to help. His life is transformed as he falls in love Mattie but their fate is doomed by the oppressive principles of that era."@en
  • "Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion."@en
  • "Ethan Frome, a New England farmer, is torn between duty and his love for Mattie Silver."@en
  • "Long considered one of Wharton's greatest works, this classic novel is a sharply-etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a 19th-century New England village. Written with stark simplicity, "Ethan Frome" centers on the power of local convention to smother the growth of the individual.--"@en
  • "Unabridged."@en
  • "Ethan is a patient, rough-hewn man tormented by a passionate love for his sickly wife's young cousin, Mattie. Restricted by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, his desperate quest for happiness leads ultimately to pain and despair."@en
  • "In het leven van een arme Amerikaanse boer vormt zijn nichtje, die zijn ziekelijke vrouw bij het huishouden helpt, het enige lichtpuntje."
  • "Ethan, a gaunt, patient New Englander is a man tormented by a passionate love for his wife's young cousin, Mattie. Restricted by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, his desperate quest for happiness leads to pain and despair."
  • "Conventional and circumstance bind the young Ethan Frome to a wife he cannot love. Grimly resigned to his fate, he sees for himself a life as bleak and constricted as the New England farm on which he lives. Then the appearance in his bleak personal landscape of his ailing wife's orphaned young cousin, Mattie Silver, rouses in Ethan a fierce passion that provokes a last, desperate impulse to free himself from his dismal destiny."@en
  • "Ethan, a gaunt, patient New Englander is a man tormented by a passionate love for his wife's young cousin, Mattie. Restricted by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, his desperate quest for happiness leads to pain and despair."@en
  • "Tall, powerful, Ethan Frome is "the most striking man in Starkfield", a remote New England village. But the hard-working farmer has become trapped between his obligations to an ailing wife and his attraction to the beautiful Mattie Silver. As his story unfolds, it is a tale of love, of tragedy, and of the dark bond that exists between the two forces."
  • "The tragic story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie."@en
  • "Long considered one of Wharton's greatest works, this classic novel is a sharply-etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a 19th-century New England village. Written with stark simplicity, "Ethan Frome" centers on the power of local convention to smother the growth of the individual."@en
  • "Convention and circumstance have bound the young Ethan Frome to a wife he cannot love. Grimly resigned to his fate, he sees for himself a life as bleak and constricted as the New England farm on which he lives. But the sudden appearance of his ailing wife's orphaned young cousin, Mattie Silver, rouses in Ethan a fierce passion that provokes a last, desperate impulse to free himself from his dismal destiny. Edith Wharton's classic Ethan Frome vividly demonstrates how conventional conscience and narrow-minded local concerns work together to stifle what is most vital and compelling in the human spirit."
  • "The tragic story of an early 20th century man living with 19th century values in New England, in love with his wife's cousin."
  • "The tragic story of an early 20th century man living with 19th century values in New England, in love with his wife's cousin."@en
  • "Tall, powerful, Ethan Frome is "the most stiking man in Starkfield." But the hard-working farmer has become trapped -- between his obligations to an ailing wife and his attraction to the beautiful Mattie Silver. As his story unfolds, it is a tale of love, of tragedy, and of the dark bond that exists between the two forces."@en
  • "New England farmer Ethan Frome, trapped in a loveless marriage, falls in love with Mattie Silver, his ailing wife's orphaned cousin, and attempts to free himself from the bonds of small town convention."@en
  • "Ethan Frome, a poor farmer in nineteenth-century Starkfield, Massachusetts, sets off a devastating chain of events when he falls in love with the vivacious Mattie, cousin of his sickly, demanding wife."@en
  • "Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie'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."@en
  • "Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion."
  • "Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Classical literature"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Sound recordings"@en
  • "Romance fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Unabridged audiobooks"@en
  • "Pastoral fiction"@en
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  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "Ethan Frome"
  • "Ethan frome, with ebook"@en
  • "Ethan frome, with ebook"

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