{"product_id":"ethan-frome-and-other-short-fiction-paperback-by-edith-wharton","title":"Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction Paperback by Edith Wharton","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eBantam Classics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(1987-03-01)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e336\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780553212556\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e192.78\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e6.8 x 4.19 x 0.73\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eOn a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluded with Ethan Frome are the novella \u003ci\u003eThe Touchstone\u003c\/i\u003e and three short stories, \u003ci\u003e“The Last Asset,” “The Other Two,” \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e“Xingu.”\u003c\/i\u003e Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of America’s finest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eThe upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist.  Educated by tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career: marriage.  But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an emotional disappointment, if not a disaster.  She suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894.  In spite of the strain of her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer first published book was a guide to interior decorating, but this was followed by several novels and story collections.  They were written while the Whartons lived in Newport and New York, traveled in Europe, and built their grand home, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts.  In Europe, she met Henry James, who became her good friend, traveling companion, and the sternest but most careful critic of her fiction.  \u003cb\u003eThe House of Mirth \u003c\/b\u003e(1905) was both a resounding critical success and a bestseller, as was \u003cb\u003eEthan Frome \u003c\/b\u003e(1911).  In 1913 the Whartons were divorced, and Edith took up permanent residence in France.  Her subject, however, remained America, especially the moneyed New York of her youth. Her great satiric novel, \u003cb\u003eThe Custom of the Country \u003c\/b\u003ewas published in 1913 and \u003cb\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/b\u003e won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her later years, she enjoyed the admiration of a new generation of writers, including Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald.  In all, she wrote some thirty books, including an autobiography. \u003ci\u003e A Backwards Glance\u003c\/i\u003e (1934). She died at her villa near Paris in 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45442415427745,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780553212556","price":6.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780553212556.jpg?v=1764201800","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/ethan-frome-and-other-short-fiction-paperback-by-edith-wharton","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}