Research Catalog

Title

Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton ; edited by Carol J. Singley.

Author

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

Publication

Peterborough, ON : Broadview Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors

Singley, Carol J., 1951-

Description

251 p. : ill., facs., ports.; 22 cm.

Summary

This amply annotated edition of Wharton's 1911 classic novella includes textual notes and documents, including Wharton's preface, letters, reviews, and early short story, "Mrs. Manstey's View." It is accompanied by the editor's comprehensive introduction and a wide array of readings on topics central to the novella: tragedy, health and fitness, sex and marriage, and turn-of-the-century New England poverty and isolation. Of her twenty-five novels and novellas, Ethan Frome is the one of which Edith Wharton was most proud. Historically viewed as a high society writer or novelist of manners, Wharton is now receiving her due as an astute chronicler and critic of American life who brought literary realism to new levels and helped to usher in a period of modernist innovation.This Broadview Edition demonstrates that Ethan Frome, a nightmarish saga of thwarted romance, is not an anomaly in Wharton's career, but a natural outgrowth of her interest in the interplay of individual and society.

Series Statement

Broadview editions

Uniform Title

Broadview editions

Subject

• Accident victims > Fiction
• Farm life > Fiction
• Married people > Fiction
• Massachusetts > Fiction
• Rural poor > Fiction
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction
• Fiction

Note

• 'Provides a detailed introduction to the novel's main themes and contexts, helpful explanatory notes throughout the text, and a useful bibliography for further reading."--P.[4] of Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781554810178
• 1554810175

OCLC

820108039

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library