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  • Published: 21 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141973982
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

Ethan Frome




The new paperback series: Penguin English Library

'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.

  • Published: 21 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141973982
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

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Emma
Persuasion
A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Saint Joan
Botchan
Kusamakura
Love
Annals
Selected Poems
Military Dispatches

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