Ethan Frome is a poor New England farmer who lives a downtrodden existence with his wife in this story of pessimism and tragic waste from one of America's great authors.

Ethan Frome (Collins Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Edith, Wharton

Classics

HarperCollins, Publishers

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The House of Mirth (Collins Classics)

Engaged to the docile May Welland, Newland Archer falls madly in love with the nonconformist Countess Olenska, an older woman with a reputation, but his allegiance to the social code of their set makes their love an impossibility. Reprint. Movie tie-in. 50,000 first printing.

The Age of Innocence

Collier Books

"I put most of myself into that opus, " Edith Wharton said of "The Reef, " possibly her most autobiographical novel. Published in 1912, it was, Bernard Berenson told Henry Adams, "better than any previous work excepting "Ethan Frome."

The Reef

United States

MADAME DE TREYMES & OTHER NOVELLAS

History & Criticism

A collection of beautifully-crafted short stories. They are set in Italy, France and America and are powerful portraits of women who live in 'the world of propriety' at the turn of the century. They tell of the emotions women feel: in love, in jealousy, when they long for children or seek independence - and when their passions lead them to overstep the bounds laid down by exacting conventions. We see too what happens to those strong enough to break the rules but rarely strong enough to live forever beyond the pale of the society that has banished them.First published in America in 1964, Roman Fever contains some of Edith Wharton's finest writing.

Roman Fever & Other Stories

Scribner

Collier

Contains complete text of the novel, plus these supplementary materials: Biographical sketch of Edith Wharton. - Excerpt from Wharton's autobiography, 'A Backward Glance.' - Literary criticism of Ethan Frome, by Elizabeth Ammons. - Complementary poems and short stories.

Ethan Frome; With Connections

Contemporary

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Ethan Frome with Related Readings

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and short stories. Wharton was well-acquainted with many of her era's literary and public figures, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time. She wrote several influential books, including The Decoration of Houses (1897), her first published work, and Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904). The Age of Innocence (1920), perhaps her best known work, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. Her other works include: The Greater Inclination (1899), The Touchstone (1900), Sanctuary (1903), The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (1904), The House of Mirth (1905), Madame De Treymes (1907), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories (1908), Ethan Frome (1912), In Morocco (1921), and The Glimpses of the Moon (1921).

Ethan Frome

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Ethan Frome (Collins Classics)

The House of Mirth (Collins Classics)

The Age of Innocence

The Reef

MADAME DE TREYMES & OTHER NOVELLAS

Roman Fever & Other Stories

The Age of Innocence

Ethan Frome; With Connections

Ethan Frome with Related Readings

Ethan Frome