Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters Hardback
by Edith Wharton
Part of the Everyman's Library CLASSICS series
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These brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-cass 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Everyman
- Publication Date:22/02/2008
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- ISBN:9781841593128
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Everyman
- Publication Date:22/02/2008
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- ISBN:9781841593128
