Ethan Frome ; Summer ; Bunner sisters / Edith Wharton ; introduction by Hermione Lee.
Series: Everyman's library ; 312 | Everyman's libraryPublication details: London : Everyman's library 2008.Description: xlvii, 366 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780307268259 (US)
- 9781841593128 (UK)
- 813.52 23
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Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 813 WHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000412079 |
"These brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. "Ethan Frome" is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. "Summer", also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to "Ethan Frome" - Wharton herself called it 'the hot Ethan' - in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening."Bunner Sisters" takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late-nineteenth-century New York, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes. All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of America's greatest writers." - Copac
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