Edith Wharton's tragic novel depicts the ill-fated love between Ethan Frome and his wife's young cousin, Mattie Silver. Wharton uses recurring themes of love and betrayal in a rural New England setting to reveal her distaste for the unbending rules.
This unique anthology series provides an accessible resource for students researching America's and the world's greatest literary lives and works. Each book contains an in-depth biography.
Contributing writers' essays are taken from a wide variety of sources. Each essay is introduced by a concise summation of the contributing author's themes and insights.
Additional features include an annotated table of contents, a chronology of the author's life and career as well as of concurrent historical events, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
