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Ethan Frome / by Edith Wharton, with an introduction written for this edition.

Title
Ethan Frome / by Edith Wharton, with an introduction written for this edition.
Author
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Publication
New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1922.

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Additional Authors
  • Charles Scribner's Sons publisher.
  • Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
  • Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957
  • Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Description
2 p. l., v, 180 p. front.; 22 cm.
Summary
This is a tragic 19th century love story. The main characters are Ethan Frome, his wife Zenobia, called Zeena, and her young cousin Mattie Silver. Frome and Zeena marry after she nurses his mother in her last illness. Although Frome seems ambitious and intelligent, Zeena holds him back. When her young cousin Mattie comes to stay on their New England farm, Frome falls in love with her. But the social conventions of the day doom their love and their hopes. The story forcefully conveys Wharton's abhorrence of society's unbending standards of loyalty. Written while Wharton lived in France but before her divorce (1913), Ethan Frome became one of the best known and most popular of her works. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.
Subject
  • Accident victims > Fiction
  • Berkshire Hills (Mass.) > Fiction
  • Married people > Fiction
  • Rural poor > Fiction
  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Domestic fiction
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
Note
  • "This edition, designed by Bruce Rogers, consists of two thousand copies printed from type, which has been distributed."
  • "Published September, 1911 ... Limited edition published October, 1922."
Indexed In (note)
  • Work of Bruce Rogers,
  • Warde, F. Bruce Rogers,
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
^^^22022700^//r85
OCLC
5847395
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library