Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
By Edith Wharton and Kent Ljungquist
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- Footnotes and endnotes
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One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in love with her visiting cousin, the vivacious Mattie Silver. As Mattie is forced to leave his household, Frome steals one last afternoon with her—one that culminates in a ruinous sled ride with unspeakably tragic results.
Unhappily married herself, Edith Wharton projected her dark views of love onto people far removed from her social class in Ethan Frome. Her sensitivity to natural beauty and human psychology, however, make this slim novel a convincing and compelling portrait of rural life. A powerful tale of passion and loss—and the wretched consequences thereof—Ethan Frome is one of American literatures great tragic love stories.
Also included in this volume are four of Edith Wharton’s finest short stories: “The Pretext,” “Afterward,” “The Legend,” and “Xingu.”
Kent P. Ljungquist, Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Having grown up in an upper-class, tightly controlled society known as “Old New York” at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage, Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of that society’s fiercest critics as well as one of America’s greatest writers. The author of more than 40 books in 40 years, Wharton’s oeuvre includes classic works of American literature such as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, as well as authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In addition to the novella Ethan Frome, this collection includes the stories "The Pretext," "Afterward," "The Legend," and "Xingu." I have to admit to being quite bored by "the Pretext." Luckily, the other stories were all great. Wharton has a gift for language, and a knack for manipulating situations and story lines to achieve interesting results. The last two stories, "the Legend" and "Xingu," were unexpectedly funny. "Xingu" is a must-read for anyone who has ever attended a book club meeting.