Ethan Frome & Summer [electronic resource]
Edith Wharton2011
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A pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout,
the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy
Barton
Thought Edith Wharton is best known for her cutting contemplation of fashionable
New York, Ethan Frome and Summer are set in small New England towns, far from
Manhattan's beau monde. Together in one volume, these thematically linked short
novels display Wharton's characteristic criticism of society's hypocrisy, and
her daring exploration of the destructive consequences of sexual appetite. From
the wintry setting of Ethan Frome , where a man hounded by community standards
is destroyed by the very thing that might bring him happiness, to the florid
town of Summer , where a young woman's first romance projects her into a
dizzying rite of passage, Wharton captures beautifully the urges and failures of
human nature.
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Main title:
Ethan Frome & Summer [electronic resource] / Edith Wharton
Author:
Edith Wharton, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Modern Library, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (304 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780307808509
Language:
English
BRN:
429280
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |