Ethan Frome

Name: Ethan Frome
Brand: Wharton, Edith
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Dans les montagnes du Massachusetts à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, Ethan Frome, un jeune homme pauvre, voit sa vie bouleversée lorsqu'il tombe amoureux pour la première fois. Pris entre son mariage avec une vieille cousine et ses nouveaux sentiments, Ethan devra faire face à un destin tragique. Le roman, chef-d'œuvre atypique d'Edith Wharton, explore les thèmes de l'amour impossible, de la solitude et du sacrifice. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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4ème de couverture

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio towards their tragic destinies.Biographie de l'auteurEdith Newbold Jones (Edith Wharton) (1862-1937) was born in New York City during the American Civil War. She enjoyed a diverse and very successful career as interior and garden designer, short story writer and celebrated novelist, and was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Wharton found inspiration for Ethan Frome's tragic denouement in an actual event in Lenox, Massachusetts, one of the victims of which she met personally.The House of Mirth is also published in the Penguin English Library.

Wharton, Edith

Ethan Frome

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Le Pitch

Dans les montagnes du Massachusetts à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, Ethan Frome, un jeune homme pauvre, voit sa vie bouleversée lorsqu'il tombe amoureux pour la première fois. Pris entre son mariage avec une vieille cousine et ses nouveaux sentiments, Ethan devra faire face à un destin tragique. Le roman, chef-d'œuvre atypique d'Edith Wharton, explore les thèmes de l'amour impossible, de la solitude et du sacrifice. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Détails du livre

Titre complet

Ethan Frome

Auteur

Editeur

Publication

05 août 1963

Pages

128

Taille

19.8 x 13 x 0.8 cm

Poids

85

ISBN-13

9780141389400

Contenu

4ème de couverture

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio towards their tragic destinies.Biographie de l'auteurEdith Newbold Jones (Edith Wharton) (1862-1937) was born in New York City during the American Civil War. She enjoyed a diverse and very successful career as interior and garden designer, short story writer and celebrated novelist, and was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Wharton found inspiration for Ethan Frome's tragic denouement in an actual event in Lenox, Massachusetts, one of the victims of which she met personally.The House of Mirth is also published in the Penguin English Library.