Ethan Frome & Summer (Modern Library Classics)

Ethan Frome & Summer (Modern Library Classics)

A pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton
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Thought Edith Wharton is best known for her cutting contemplation of fashionable New York, Ethan Frome and Summer are set in small New England towns, far from Manhattanâ€™s beau monde. Together in one volume, these thematically linked short novels display Whartonâ€™s characteristic criticism of societyâ€™s hypocrisy, and her daring exploration of the destructive consequences of sexual appetite. From the wintry setting of Ethan Frome, where a man hounded by community standards is destroyed by the very thing that might bring him happiness, to the florid town of Summer, where a young womanâ€™s first romance projects her into a dizzying rite of passage, Wharton captures beautifully the urges and failures of human nature.
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Praise for Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome
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â€œEthan Frome [is considered] Mrs. Whartonâ€™s masterpiece . . . The secret of its greatness is the stark human drama of it; the social crudity and human delicacy intermingled; the defiant, over-riding passion, and the long-drawn-out logic of the paid penalty. It has no contexts, no mitigations; it is plain, raw, first-hand human stuff.â€â€”The New York Times
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â€œEthan Frome [has] become part of the American mythology. . . . Whartonâ€™s astonishing authority here is to render such pain with purity and economy . . . Truly it is a northern romance, akin even to Wuthering Heights.â€â€”Harold Bloom
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â€œTraditionally, Henry James has always been placed slightly higher up the slope of Parnassus than Edith Wharton. But now that the prejudice against the female writer is on the wane, they look to be exactly what they are: giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature.â€â€”Gore Vidal
Country USA
Brand Modern Library
Manufacturer Modern Library
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0375757287_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2001-05-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375757280

Country	USA
Brand	Modern Library
Manufacturer	Modern Library
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0375757287_used
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2001-05-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375757280

Ethan Frome & Summer (Modern Library Classics)

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