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Ethan Frome

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'He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things…'

One harsh winter in 1900s New England, Ethan Frome toils at his farm while struggling to maintain a bearable existence with his forbidding wife, Zeena. When Ethan takes Zeena's cousin, Mattie, home from a dance he is entranced: Mattie brings with her the possibility for happiness, and with that she quickly becomes a symbol of hope for Ethan.

First published in 1911, Ethan Frome is an intimate look at choices not made and lives not yet lived. Told through the eyes of a city outsider, this heartbreaking portrait of three lives haunted by thwarted dreams remains for many the most subtle and moving of Wharton's works.

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ISBN: 9780008110543
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Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 160 pages
Series: Collins Classics
Genres: Classic fiction: general and literary
Rural communities
Social and cultural history
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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