Edith Wharton

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In the rather joyless and isolated town of Starkfield, Massachussets, which sinks in snow for most of the year, people's emotions are also rather icy. Edith Wharton tells with great narrative skill of a doomed world that comes alive in the characters of her novel. Farmer Ethan Frome is bound by a love triangle with his wife and her younger cousin Mattie. Their lives are marked by love and loneliness. A story of passionate rebellion and tragic passivity, of speechlessness and the inability to escape fate. Gr ls Classics - English Edition

It is a well-known dilemma in literature: a man between two women. If he chooses the one he loves, he loses family, reputation, wealth. If he makes a "reasonable" choice, he loses the love of his life. Edith Wharton traces some forty years in the life of Newland Archer, a wealthy New York lawyer: how he vacillates, doubts, suffers, and how he ultimately lets circumstances decide his life. In the process, she discusses opposing positions: for example, that love and passion can be dangerous forces, with the power to disrupt social order. On the other hand, however, she lays out in great detail and with relish the dubious nature of that order. With the caveat that not everyone is made for a life of freedom. The majority of her female characters, for example, are not. Gr ls Classics - English Edition

In the rather joyless and isolated town of Starkfield, Massachussets, which sinks in snow for most of the year, people's emotions are also rather icy. Edith Wharton tells with great narrative skill of a doomed world that comes alive in the characters of her novel. Farmer Ethan Frome is bound by a love triangle with his wife and her younger cousin Mattie. Their lives are marked by love and loneliness. A story of passionate rebellion and tragic passivity, of speechlessness and the inability to escape fate. Gr ls Classics - English Edition

It is a well-known dilemma in literature: a man between two women. If he chooses the one he loves, he loses family, reputation, wealth. If he makes a "reasonable" choice, he loses the love of his life. Edith Wharton traces some forty years in the life of Newland Archer, a wealthy New York lawyer: how he vacillates, doubts, suffers, and how he ultimately lets circumstances decide his life. In the process, she discusses opposing positions: for example, that love and passion can be dangerous forces, with the power to disrupt social order. On the other hand, however, she lays out in great detail and with relish the dubious nature of that order. With the caveat that not everyone is made for a life of freedom. The majority of her female characters, for example, are not. Gr ls Classics - English Edition