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Summary: A Sick, Sly Tale of Revenge as Ethan tries to escape
Review: Ethan's attempt to end his troubles only leads his wife to take revenge in a passive sort of way.
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Summary: Boring......
Review: If u enjoy reading tragic love stories then this is the book for you! This book bored me to death. It might be short but it takes forever to read! I rate this book two because it didn't go anywhere. It only took place at the farm and had only three characters. And what the heck was the pickle dish? The good thing about this book was the imagery. It is very descriptive.
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Summary: A great book for literary analysis
Review: If you're looking for a book where there's something deeper than the surface, this is for you. It's full of literary devices like symbolism that really get you thinking. It's interesting when you get into the characters and realize what's really going on. It really is a terrific work of literature.
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Summary: Annotation
Review: One of the foremost novellas of this century, this Replica Classic is the story of a poor New England farmer who is trapped in a loveless marriage to a tyrannical wife. A departure from her usual depictions of New York society, Ethan Frome is Edith Wharton's least characteristic and most lauded book.
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Summary: I was FORCED to read this book.
Review: Yeah, I had to read it for an english class, which stinks in the first place because having to pick apart every novel you read in high school will discourage any kid from reading--and I'm on the Literary Mag! I have to admit, I saw the movie before the book, just because I love Liam, who played a wonderful Ethan. This book's other characters, you know besides Ethan Zeena and Mattie, were so flat and had no point. I really didn't understand who any of the other people in the book were accept maybe their jobs in the town. With that many flat characters, how can it be interesting? Only the end is enjoyable, and then when it goes back into the author's view, it becomes (and ends) boring again. See the movie.
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Summary: A good rural tale
Review: This is a good book. Not a great one, a good one. It portrays a winter landscape and a small town. Unfortunately, the characters of the small town are flat. The main character is a ponderous middle-aged man who has had an unlucky life. I enjoyed the book, which I read in about 3 hrs. The ending isn't 'enough,' somehow, and I was left feeling like something more had needed to be said. I do intend to read more of Wharton, if only to say that I have.
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Summary: The Tale of Two Lovers
Review: I am not a big reader, but I have to confess, this is one of the best books that I have ever read through out my lifetime. If you are looking for an undercover love story, than Ethan Frome is without a doubt, the perfect book for you. I do not usually give too many books 4 stars, but I feel that this book was extrodinary. It had everything that I perfect book should have.Great imagery, great theme, great wording, and great charecters. To conclue this statement, if you are looking for a wonderful storry to read in your spare time, then you should definately pick up Ethan Frome.
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Summary: The Tragic Tale of Two Lovers
Review: I have never been a big reader. I actually do not read often at all, but when I chose to read this book, I had realized that I had never read anything like it before. This book had real emotion, and passion, not like some of the other books that I have read in the past. It made me sad to see that Zeena and Ethan were not working, but then it made me so happy to see that Ethan had actually found someone that he truly loved. This book definately deserved 4 stars, and you won't know until you read it for yourself. If you want my advice, then I would at least give this book a chance. It will be one of the best love stories you have ever read.
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Summary: Not Suggested for the Clinically Depressed
Review: And if you're not currently among the ranks of the depressed, you will be after reading this novel. Seriously, I did not find the novel either a) beautiful or b) worth reading. Perhaps it would have been very moving in a tragic sense if I had bought any of Wharton's feeble attempts at painting a story of forbidden love gone wrong. The novel entirely lacked any real connection with human emotions and behaviors. Perhaps, if the storyline of the book were my life, it would depress me very much. The pointlessness and ironic misfortune of these characters lives is remarkable, but I was left feeling too apathetic to be upset by this fact. I do not suggest you torture yourself by reading this novel, unless you have a flair for masochism.
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Summary: brothersjudddotcom recommends
Review: This brief but tragic novel casts a weirdly mesmeric spell, helped greatly by the fact that you can read it in one or two sittings. Ethan Frome is a strapping young New England farmer; like George Bailey he dreams of becoming an engineer and getting out of his small town. But circumstances conspire against him as he is first forced to care for his ailing parents, then impulsively marries the young woman who was brought in to help his Mother in her final days. His wife, Zenobia, proceeds to develop her own health problems, real or imagined, and Ethan is trapped in a loveless marriage on a hard scrabble farm that he can not possibly maintain. Then Zenobia's cousin Mattie Silver, who is destitute, comes to stay with them and help around the house. Ethan falls in love with her and she with him, but Zenobia, realizing that something is going on, determines to send the girl away. Ethan struggles against fate, but is too decent to actually run away with Mattie and leave an invalid wife behind. Despite which, an awful tragedy intervenes and warps the lives and bodies of all concerned. This ineffably sad tale is filled with all the revulsion at convention that we associate with Wharton and it is also an insidious and subtle attack in the long American war between the advocates of urban and rural life. Wharton, the ultimate chronicler of urban society, marshals everything from the name of the town, Starkfield, to the portrait of the barren homestead, to the final image of the shattered family left on that farm, to paint the most dismal possible picture of rural life. It is a deeply affecting work and you will not soon forget the heart rending plight of Ethan Frome.
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