Ethan Frome (Penguin English Library) -

Edith Wharton

Penguin Classics

2012

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780141389400

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio towards their tragic destinies.

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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.