by Edith Wharton · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194791151
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«Ethan Frome» is Edith Wharton's novel adapted for the Oxford Bookworms Library, published by Oxford University Press in paperback, in English.
Ethan Frome is a Massachusetts farmer who barely makes money from his land and endures a loveless marriage with Zeena, a sickly, complaining woman. The arrival of young Mattie Silver, who helps around the house, fills his lonely life with light and hope, but poverty weighs like a prison on any possibility of change.
It corresponds to level 3 of the Oxford Bookworms Library, with a vocabulary of 1000 words and 10,700 words of text (CEFR B1). The adaptation is by Susan Kingsley and the edition is from 2008.
For students of English as a foreign language, especially intermediate-level young people and adults who want to read an adapted classic.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
