Descriere - Ethan Frome. (Paperback)
The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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 Zeenas 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 fictions finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio towards their tragic destinies.
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