Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton torrent

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Literature Classic
Written by Edith Wharton
Read by C.M. Hebert
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 3 hours and 40 minutes

Probably the most famous of Edith Wharton’s novels, Ethan Frome contrasts sharply with her usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged and whose strengths and weaknesses she understood so well. Ethan Frome is a keenly-etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a 19th-century New England village.

Ethan, a gaunt, patient New Englander, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his wife’s young cousin, Mattie. Restricted by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, his desperate quest for happiness ultimately leads to pain and despair. Ethan’s story, with its tragic implications of what might have been, has had an irresistible fascination over the past century.