Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome by Edith WhartonThe Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton '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',

he observes that historically women have been treated little better than slaves

With the verve of a novelist and the insight of a philosopher

with the essays

In order to perfect his experiments

their fantasies

Smart and precocious

The Cheshire cat with a pull tab that removes the cat and leaves the cat's grin

the terror and confusion of the front

preferring the company of animals to people

' Guardian

Perfect for little readers and Moomin fans

Astonishing