Works of Edith Wharton
- ISBN-10
- 0517628554
- ISBN-13
- 9780517628553
- Category
- Ghost stories, American.
- Pages
- 676
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Avenel
- Authors
- Edith Wharton, Ruth Lake Tepper
Description
Ethan Frome: Ethan Frome, a New England farmer, is torn between duty and his love for Mattie Silver. The house of mirth: Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers" with a precision comparable to that of Proust. And her brilliant and complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and dependence on marriage for economic survival reduce her to a decorative object, becomes an incisive commentary on the nature and status of women in that society.
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