Ethan Frome -

Edith Wharton

Wordsworth Classics

2000

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781840224085

With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield, readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land. Piecing together the story of monosyllabic Ethan Frome, his grim wife, Zeena, and Mattie Silver, her charming cousin, Wharton explores psychological dead-lock: frustration, longing, resentment, passion.
First published in 1911, the novella stunned its public with its consummate handling of the unfolding drama, and has remained for many readers the most compelling and subtle of all Wharton’s fiction

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3 (Bom)

O pequeno romance de Wharton enfatiza dois temas, o conflito entre a paixão e a convenção social e os efeitos restritivos de um inverno rigoroso sobre o espírito humano. Esses temas quase parecem conspirar para tornar Ethan uma vítima passiva e infeliz das circunstâncias, oprimido por seu dever para com sua esposa, sua existência amarga como um fazendeiro pobre e a tensão que a paisagem congelada de Starkfield coloca em sua alma.