Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 3:: Ethan Frome audio CD pack

'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', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill- starred trio towards their tragic destinies.

„Parea sa faca parte din peisajul mut al melancoliei, o incarnare a nenorocirii sale inghetate, cu tot ceea ce era cald si simtitor in el legat rapid sub suprafata”. sotie suspecta si ipohondrica, Zeena. Dar cand varul vioi al Zeenei intra in gospodaria lor ca „fata angajata”, Ethan se gaseste obsedat de ea si de posibilitatile de fericire pe care ea vine sa le reprezinte.