HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
'He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things…'
One harsh winter in 1900s New England, Ethan Frome toils at his farm while struggling to maintain a bearable existence with his forbidding wife, Zeena. When Ethan takes Zeena's cousin, Mattie, home from a dance he is entranced: Mattie brings with her the possibility for happiness, and with that she quickly becomes a symbol of hope for Ethan.
First published in 1911, Ethan Frome is an intimate look at choices not made and lives not yet lived. Told through the eyes of a city outsider, this heartbreaking portrait of three lives haunted by thwarted dreams remains for many the most subtle and moving of Wharton's works.
| ISBN: | 9780008110543 |
| Publication date: | 15th January 2015 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton |
| Publisher: | William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Collins Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Rural communities Social and cultural history Literary studies: general Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |