Name: Ethan Frome
SKU: 61577406
Price: 21.52 EUR
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Author: Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9781544837802

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.6 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN13

9781544837802

Synopsis "Ethan Frome"

The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The prologue opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield, a fictional town in New England, while in the area on business. He spots a limping, quiet man around the village, who is somehow compelling in his demeanor and carriage. Curious, the narrator sets out to learn about him. He learns that Frome's limp arose from having been injured in a "smash-up" twenty-four years before, but further details are not forthcoming.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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