內容簡介
A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife's young cousin. Trapped by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, he is ultimately destroyed by that which offers him the greatest chance at happiness. Like The House of Mirth and many of Edith Wharton's other novels, Ethan Frome centers on the power of local convention to smother the growth of the individual. Written with stark simplicity, this powerful and tragic novel has long been considered one of Wharton's greatest works.
中文簡介
完全不同於伊迪絲·華頓的其他從自身出發的其他諷刺紐約上流社會的小說， Ethan Frome鋒銳刻畫了19世紀單純的新英格蘭村居民。主人公Ethan frome被他對久病的妻子的表妹Mattie Silver的深愛折磨著 。 在與妻子的婚姻以及被公眾的譴責的恐懼的約束下，這份愛在給了他極大幸福的機會的同時，也最終毀滅了他 。如同歡樂屋及伊迪絲·華頓的其他小說一樣，Ethan Frome以當地習俗對於個人成長的影響為中心。這部簡潔卻強有力的悲劇小說一直被認為是伊迪絲·華頓最精彩的作品之一。
作者簡介
Edith Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
