Thorndike Classics: Ethan Frome (Hardcover)

from bcrowl399

I read this book when I was a budding teenager. Now I've read it again because I just couldn't remember it that well. There are some very pleasant descriptive scenes about winter in New England. The character's emotions are genuine and forceful. The story has some very intense passages, which I e...

from lauralkeet

Despite being a huge Edith Wharton fan, I put off reading this book for years. I picked it up after reading Henry James' Daisy Miller, to see how Wharton handled a short novel about love and loss. The two novels deal with somewhat different themes, but Wharton's treatment is far superior. Ethan F...

from Ameliaiif

Okay, so once I got over my temper tatrum at my professor's effrontery to make me read for class, I actually liked this book! Now, that's saying something, because usually I grade classics just like I would any other book - none of this: "Ohhh, gee, Author Person! You're book is all kinds of wond...

from Smiler69

"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. If you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-b...

from maryreinert

I love this story which I've read over the years. As a high school student it made an impression as I saw the results of an unfulfilled life; a life of self imposed narrowness. In a strange way it taught me to take advantage of opportunities. Reading it again years later, the sadness is even more...