||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Buy a different edition|By N0DY|I'm not commenting on the novel itself, but on the printing. In a word, awful. The author's name is spelled 'Edit Warton' on the first page! The type is minuscule. It looks, literally, like it was downloaded from a public domain site and printed without further editing. There's no intorduction, no background on the author.
If you want|From the Back Cover|Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and
Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle. Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to an older woman. Frome is emotionall... [PDF.kp58] Ethan Frome (Dover Thrift Editions) Rating: 3.81 (750 Votes)
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Ethan Frome (Dover Thrift Editions) | Edith Wharton.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.