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基本信息·出版社：W. W. Norton & Company
·页码：1 页
·出版日期：1995年02月
·版本：New Ed
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：伊坦·弗洛美
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`I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.' Who is this strange man Ethan Frome? What is his dreadful secret? . . . Amidst a bleak New England winter landscape, powerful emotions lead to far-reaching consequences, when Ethan Frome struggles to break free from a loveless marriage. . . Cambridge Literature is a series of study texts which presents writing in the English-speaking world from the 16th century up to the present day. The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction. Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary. The student will find in each volume a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. 作者简介 America's most famous woman of letters, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize,
Edith Wharton was born into one of the last "leisured class" families in New York City, as she put it, in 1862. Educated privately, she was married to Edward Wharton in 1885, and for the next few years, they spent their time in the high society of Newport (Rhode Island), then Lenox (Massachusetts) and Europe. It was in Europe that Wharton first met Henry James, who was to have a profound and lasting influence on her life and work. Wharton's first published book was a work of nonfiction, in collaboration with Ogden Codman,
The Decoration of Houses (1897), but from early on, her marriage had been a source of distress, and she was advised by her doctor to write fiction to relieve her nervous tension. Wharton's first short stories appeared in
Scribner's Magazine, and though she published several volumes of fiction around the turn of the century, including
The Greater Inclination (1899),
The Touchstone (1900),
Crucial Instances (1901),
The Valley of Decision (1902),
Sanctuary (1903), and
The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904), it wasn't until 1905, with the publication of the bestselling
The House of Mirth, that she was recognized as one of the most important novelists of her time for her keen social insight and subtle sense of satire. In 1906, Wharton visited Paris, which inspired
Madame de Treymes (1907), and made her home there in 1907, finally divorcing her husband in 1912. The years before the outbreak of World War I represent the core of her artistic achievement, when
Ethan Frome (1911),
The Reef (1912), and
The Custom of the Country (1913) were published. During the war, she remained in France organizing relief for Belgian refugees, for which she was later awarded the Legion of Honor. She also wrote two novels about the war,
The Marne (1918) and
A Son at the Front (1923), and continued, in France, to write about New England and the Newport society she had known so well in
Summer (1917), the companion to
Ethan Frome, and
The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. Wharton died in France in 1937. Her other works include
Old New York (1924),
The Mother's Recompense (1925),
The Writing of Fiction (1925),
The Children (1928),
Hudson River Bracketed (1929), and her autobiography,
A Backward Glance (1934).
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
编辑推荐 From AudioFile Kids will respond to the audio version of Ethan Frome, in the same way they have responded to the book. First, kids enjoy short fiction, and Marilyn Langbehn's fully voiced reading is short. Also kids like strong feelings, and what is stronger than Ethan's restrained fury at Zeena? Finally, kids are intrigued with irony and view with awe Ethan's twisted fate. Langbehn voices perfectly the carping, invidious Zeena. But in using her voice far below its natural range for Ethan, she weakens his characterization and the ironic effect. This, coupled with careless production editing, prevents full immersion in the text. This is a good audiobook but not a great one. P.E.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. OBSERVER “Her novels… ensure her place amongst the greatest writers of English in the twentieth century.” --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
专业书评 From AudioFile
Kids will respond to the audio version of Ethan Frome, in the same way they have responded to the book. First, kids enjoy short fiction, and Marilyn Langbehn's fully voiced reading is short. Also kids like strong feelings, and what is stronger than Ethan's restrained fury at Zeena? Finally, kids are intrigued with irony and view with awe Ethan's twisted fate. Langbehn voices perfectly the carping, invidious Zeena. But in using her voice far below its natural range for Ethan, she weakens his characterization and the ironic effect. This, coupled with careless production editing, prevents full immersion in the text. This is a good audiobook but not a great one. P.E.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
OBSERVER
“Her novels… ensure her place amongst the greatest writers of English in the twentieth century.” --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
