Ethan Frome /
"Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silv...
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| Format: | CD Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2008]
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| Edition: | Simplified ed. |
| Series: | Oxford bookworms library. Classics.
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| Summary: | "Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to help Zeena and do the housework. Her bright smile and laughing voice bring light and hope into the Fromes' house--and into Ethan's lonely life. But poverty is a prison from which few people escape ..."--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 72 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.). |
| ISBN: | 9780194792998 0194792994 9780194791151 0194791157 9780194792981 0194792986 |