Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith
Wharton's Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and
sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by
Elizabeth Ammons in Penguin Classics. 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. In one of
American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith
Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies.
Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan
Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read
novel. Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was a
member of a distinguished New York family said to be the basis for
the idiom 'keeping up with the Joneses'. During her life she
published more than forty volumes, including novels, stories,
verse, essays, travel books and memoirs; for years she published
poetry and short stories in magazines, but the book that made
Wharton famous was The House of Mirth (1905), which established her
both as a writer of distinction and popular appeal. In 1920,
Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for
literature with her novel The Age of Innocence. If you enjoyed
Ethan Frome, you might like Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter, also available in Penguin Classics.
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