Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton ; edited by Elaine Showalter.
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Medvirkende | Showalter, Elaine, (editor.)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (161 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Edith Wharton; ETHAN FROME; I; II; Ill; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; Explanatory Notes. - `It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.' 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
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| ISBN | 0-19-159257-9. - 0-585-35118-X. - 1-280-59591-4. - 9786613625748
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