![]() ![]() On his way to the post office driven by Harmon Gow, his glance falls upon the pitiable, weighed down profile of Ethan Frome for the first time… Our narrator is a young man, visiting Starkfield for a short period on some urgent business. When the book opens, we are in Starkfield, Massachusetts a bleak, remote town characterized by winters so bitterly cold that they only accentuate a person’s sense of loneliness and isolation. But this post focuses on Ethan Frome and Summer, two novellas that boast of the same emotional depth and intensity as her New York novels and stories.Įthan Frome is a brilliant, dark, wintry tale of doomed love set in a remote New England town, a starkly different setting from Wharton’s classic, old New York. Her best novel in my view – The Age of Innocence – I had read pre-blog, and one I hope to reread and review in the near future. Edith Wharton is one of my favourite authors as can be gauged from the number of books I have reviewed on this blog – The Custom of the Country, The House of Mirth, Old New York, and The New York Stories. ![]()
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