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'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena'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 towards their tragic destinies. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Conte de la vie ordinaire
Ce livre se lit d'une traite comme un conte de Maupassant : il retrace en quelques scènes la vie d'Ethan Frome, vie de labeur et de sacrifice. Trop pauvre pour partir, il travaille dur, soigne sa mère puis sa femme qu'il a épousée parce qu'elle était là. Quand il découvre l'amour, il ne peut rien choisir : il ne peut que suivre son destin. Le style d'Edith Wharton, sobre, dense, efficace, nous entraîne sans délai vers la chute.