Résumé
An entrancing but sad story of a poverty-stricken Massachusetts farmer caught in a loveless marriage. The main characters are Ethan Frome, his wife Zenobia, called Zeena, and her young cousin Mattie Silver. Frome and Zeena marry after she nurses his mother in her last illness. Although Frome seems ambitious and intelligent, Zeena holds him back. When her young cousin Mattie comes to stay on their New England farm, Frome falls in love with her. But the social conventions of the day doom their love and their hopes. Ethan’s love for his young cousin leads to one day of explosive emotions with tragic consequences. The story forcefully conveys Wharton’s abhorrence of society’s unbending standards of loyalty.
Auteur
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Romancière américaine, Edith Wharton (née Newbold Jones) est née le 23 janvier 1862 à New York (Etats-Unis). À partir de 1906, la plus grande partie de sa vie s'écoule en France. On lui doit plusieurs best-sellers tels Chez les heureux du monde, Ethan Frome et Le Temps de l'innocence pour lequel elle obtient le prix Pulitzer. Elle meurt à Saint-Brice sous Forêt en août 1937.
Auteur(s) : Edith Wharton
Caractéristiques
Auteur(s) : Edith Wharton
Publication : 12 mai 2020
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Aucune (ePub)
Taille(s) : 236 ko (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9789897783289
