Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome (Annotated) Edith Wharton

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. As I said on occasion, I continue in my eagerness to know all the work of Edith Wharton. On this occasion, it was the turn of Ethan Frome, the story, or novel, or nouvelle - the classification of the text in this sense is complicated - which in the words of the author herself provided during her writing "the greatest joy and the fullest ease "(" the greatest pleasure and the most total freedom "). Published in 1911, Ethan Frome represents Wharton's sixth book and is not, therefore, the work of an apprentice but the first and almost the only one - Estío is another exception - in which he moves away from the environments of the High society who frequent their works. The story is set in the imaginary Starkfield (Massachusetts). The New England scene was well known as it was her home - alternating it with the house of Paris - and her husband's - Edwards Robins Wharton - since 1903, after the construction of the magnificent country house The Mount