The Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: 1,000 Headwords Ethan Frome

by Wharton, Edith; Kingsley, Susan; Hedge, Tricia; Basset, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780194230025
• ISBN10: 0194230023
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenies 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 toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Whartons other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read novel.

Author Biography

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a wealthy New York family. From 1907 she lived in France, where she became a close friend of the novelist Henry James. She wrote many novels and short stories during her life, and in 1920 became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, for her novel The Age of Innocence.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. XXVi
Select Bibliography	p. xxvii
A Chronology of Edith Wharton	p. xxx
Ethan Frome	p. 3
	p. 18
	p. 28
	p. 38
	p. 45
	p. 59
	p. 66
	p. 72
	p. 86
	p. 96
Explanatory Notes	p. 121
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