Penguin Main Series 173. 1st Edition, 1938.
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie'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 toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read novel.
Condition grading: Fair. Top right corner of front cover lost (tape repair added). Bottom left corner of front cover lost (tape repair added which wraps around spine). Tape repair to top of spine. Pen price to front cover. Signature to first inside page. Top right corners of first three pages lost. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin Main Series 173. 1st Edition, 1938.
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie'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 toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read novel.
Condition grading: Fair. Top right corner of front cover lost (tape repair added). Bottom left corner of front cover lost (tape repair added which wraps around spine). Tape repair to top of spine. Pen price to front cover. Signature to first inside page. Top right corners of first three pages lost. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
