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Ethan Frome de Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Edith Wharton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 2007
The setting for this piercing New England novel is the aptly named Starkfield, where, despite violently blue skies, the chill of cold and snow seems also to settle inside the hearts of the people who live there. Tethered to his farm, first by helpless parents, later by his querulous, hypochondriac wife Zeena, Ethan Frome ekes out a bare subsistence. Then Zeena's cousin, the impoverished, enchanting Mattie Silver comes to work for them, and, in Mattie, Ethan's hopes and dreams are rekindled. Yet theirs is a forbidden love, hemmed in by Zeena's presence. The impossible intensity in which the three exist has devastating consequences...
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844083527
ISBN-10: 1844083527
Pagini: 108
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seria Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Edith Wharton is unique in the intimacy and sureness, not to mention the virile and satiric tone, with which she investigates this narrow and declining society
Wharton's prose, with its menacing images of death and darkness, is superb. First published in 1911, it remains a hauntingly stark masterpiece

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Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.

Notă biografică

America's most famous woman of letters, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton was born into one of the last "leisured class" families in New York City, as she put it, in 1862. Educated privately, she was married to Edward Wharton in 1885, and for the next few years, they spent their time in the high society of Newport (Rhode Island), then Lenox (Massachusetts) and Europe. It was in Europe that Wharton first met Henry James, who was to have a profound and lasting influence on her life and work. Wharton's first published book was a work of nonfiction, in collaboration with Ogden Codman, The Decoration of Houses (1897), but from early on, her marriage had been a source of distress, and she was advised by her doctor to write fiction to relieve her nervous tension. Wharton's first short stories appeared in Scribner's Magazine, and though she published several volumes of fiction around the turn of the century, including The Greater Inclination (1899), The Touchstone (1900), Crucial Instances (1901), The Valley of Decision (1902), Sanctuary (1903), and The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904), it wasn't until 1905, with the publication of the bestselling The House of Mirth, that she was recognized as one of the most important novelists of her time for her keen social insight and subtle sense of satire. In 1906, Wharton visited Paris, which inspired Madame de Treymes (1907), and made her home there in 1907, finally divorcing her husband in 1912. The years before the outbreak of World War I represent the core of her artistic achievement, when Ethan Frome (1911), The Reef (1912), and The Custom of the Country (1913) were published. During the war, she remained in France organizing relief for Belgian refugees, for which she was later awarded the Legion of Honor. She also wrote two novels about the war, The Marne (1918) and A Son at the Front (1923), and continued, in France, to write about New England and the Newport society she had known so well in Summer (1917), the companion to Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. Wharton died in France in 1937. Her other works include Old New York (1924), The Mother's Recompense (1925), The Writing of Fiction (1925), The Children (1928), Hudson River Bracketed (1929), and her autobiography, A Backward Glance (1934).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Edith Wharton: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Ethan Frome
Appendix A: Writings by Edith Wharton
  1. Introduction to Ethan Frome (1922)
  2. From The Writing of Fiction (1925)
  3. From A Backward Glance (1934)
  4. “Mrs. Manstey’s View” (10 July 1891)
Appendix B: Correspondence
  1. Edith Wharton to Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis Lodge (20 June [1910])
  2. Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson (4 January [1911])
  3. Edith Wharton to W. Morton Fullerton (16 October [1911])
  4. Henry James to Edith Wharton (25 October 1911)
  5. Edith Wharton to Charles Scribner (27 November [1911])
Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews and Commentaries
  1. From The New York Times (8 October 1911)
  2. From Outlook (21 October 1911)
  3. From The Nation (26 October 1911)
  4. From The Saturday Review (18 November 1911)
  5. From John Curtis Underwood, “Culture and Edith Wharton” (1914)
  6. From William Lyon Phelps, “The Advance of the English Novel,” The Bookman (July 1916)
  7. From Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Edith Wharton: A Critical Study (1922)
  8. From Alfred Kazin, “The Lady and the Tiger,” Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1941)
  9. From Percy Lubbock, Portrait of Edith Wharton (1947)
Appendix D: Tragedy
  1. From Aristotle, Poetics (335 BCE)
  2. From Arthur Miller, “Tragedy and the Common Man” (1949)
  3. From Richard Sewall, The Vision of Tragedy (1980)
Appendix E: Health and Fitness
  1. From Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life” (1902)
  2. From Samuel McComb, “The Power of Suggestion in Nervous Troubles” (May 1908)
  3. From Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on Sexuality (1905) and “The Economic Problem of Masochism” (1924)
  4. From George Kennan, “The Problems of Suicide” (June 1908)
Appendix F: Sex and Marriage
  1. Junius Browne, “Romantic Marriages” (January 1895)
  2. From Mrs. P.T. Barnum, “Moths of Modern Marriage” (March 1891)
  3. From Byron Hall, “A Lesson Conjugal” (1 September 1903)
  4. From William Lee Howard, Facts for the Married (1912)
  5. “Separation the Cure for Matrimonial Woe” (16 January 1905)
  6. From “Felix Adler on Divorce” (26 January 1905)
Appendix G: New England and the Nation
  1. “Lenox High School Girl Dashed to her Death,” The Berkshire Evening Eagle (12 March 1904)
  2. “A Sleeping Giant,” The Youth’s Companion (18 November 1909)
  3. From Rollin Lynde Hartt, “The Regeneration of Rural New England,” Outlook (3 March 1900)
  4. From “The Value of Natural Scenery,” Outlook (26 September 1908)
Appendix H: Photographs
  1. The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts (1906)
  2. The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts (1906)
  3. Edith Wharton (1910)
  4. Wharton’s Library, The Mount (undated)
  5. Sledding in Lenox, Massachusetts (1890s)
  6. Cover of Ethan Frome, the Play (1936)
Works Cited and Further Reading