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Ethan Frome de Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome

Autor Edith Wharton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 noi 2023

Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband's feelings for Mattie go beyond simple affection, and that they seem to be reciprocated, the scene is set for a confrontation that will lead to heartbreak, misery and tragedy.A marked contrast to the mordantly satirical novels of manners set among New York high society for which she is best known, this story set in rural Massachusetts is considered by many to be Edith Wharton's highest achievement, and is unsurpassed as a study of forbidden love and thwarted desire.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847499066
ISBN-10: 1847499066
Pagini: 110
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: ALMA BOOKS
Colecția Alma Classics

Descriere

Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband's feelings for Mattie go beyond simple affection, and that they seem to be reciprocated, the scene is set for a confrontation that will lead to heartbreak, misery and tragedy.

A marked contrast to the mordantly satirical novels of manners set among New York high society for which she is best known, this story set in rural Massachusetts is considered by many to be Edith Wharton's highest achievement, and is unsurpassed as a study of forbidden love and thwarted desire.

Caracteristici

A perfect companion to The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, also published by Alma Classics

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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.

Recenzii

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.

“The Broadview Ethan Frome is that rare edition of a classic that will satisfy everyone. Carol Singley’s comprehensive and beautifully-crafted introduction invites readers to consider deeply the themes and contexts of the novel. The collection of reviews, criticism, and contemporary commentary on health, marriage, masculinity, suicide, and other relevant issues will intrigue readers for its own sake and will enrich their understanding of the ‘envelope of circumstance’ in which Ethan Frome was written and has been read. This is a worthy addition to the Wharton canon.” — Irene Goldman-Price, editor of My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann
“Carol Singley’s fine edition of Ethan Frome 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. The range of secondary materials is excellent and highlights various aesthetic concerns, including the novel’s reception and its relationship to modernist literary technique, as well as its engagement with classic and modern definitions of tragedy. The novel’s cultural contexts are illuminated by materials focusing on health and fitness; sexuality, marriage, and divorce; suicide; and technological progress and economic issues in New England and the broader U.S. The edition also contains a judicious selection of correspondence revealing Wharton’s thoughts on issues such as marriage and relationships, illness, and the novel’s publicity. The edition is a wonderful resource for students, teachers, and researchers.” — Gary Totten, North Dakota State University

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