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Ethan Frome: Ethan Frome, a New England farmer, is torn between duty and his love for Mattie Silver. The house of mirth: Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers" with a precision comparable to that of Proust. And her brilliant and complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and dependence on marriage for economic survival reduce her to a decorative object, becomes an incisive commentary on the nature and status of women in that society.
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American Ghost stories, domestic fiction, poor, English fiction, Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Married people, Rural poor, Accident victims, Farm life, Guardian and ward, Young women, Family life, Marriage, Social life and customs, Poverty, Classic Literature, Romance, Interpersonal relations, American literature, Rurual poorPeople
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New England, Berkshire Hills, MassachusettsTimes
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Works of Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome / The House of Mirth / Tales of Men and Ghosts
1987, Avenel Books
Hardcover
in English
- 1987 edition
0517628554 9780517628553
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Ethan Frome
The house of mirth --
Tales of men and ghosts.
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