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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a good one to read if you live with someone who has also read it. This way, any time there is a lull in the conversation you can talk about how depressing it is. Conversations between me and my roommate often go something like this: <br/><br/>&quot;You know what I was just thinking ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405723">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>&quot;Hey Mrs. Kinetta, are you still inflicting all that horrible <em>Ethan Frome</em> damage on your students?&quot; - John Cusack, <em>Grosse Pointe Blank</em> </strong><br/><br/>If you're looking for a book with an ever-increasing level of misery, this one is hard to beat. Try this test the next time you're with a group...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5375439">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever read a book as required reading (in high school or college) and then, rediscover it as an adult? <em>Ethan Frome</em> had receded to the dark recesses of my mind such that I had even forgotten that I had read it. I remembered reading <em>Age of Innocence</em>, but good old Ethan had left my mental building. When...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32422235">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[  Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence   with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie’s   vivacious cousin enters their household as a &quot;hired girl,&quot; Ethan finds himself obsessed   with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.  <p>  In one of American fiction’s finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this   ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from   Wharton’s other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most   widely read novel.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ethan Frome is the story of Ethan Frome, a young man settled in an unhappy marraige who falls in love with his wife's young cousin Mattie Smith.<br/><br/>This story was terrible. My AP English class ate it up, but in my opinion, all the charectors are self-centered and think only of themselves. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41345424">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hated, HATED reading this in high school. Upon a re-read a decade later: I don't hate it anymore, but the story, being domestic misery itself -- misery: unattractive, mundane, and absolutely suffocating -- is no walk in the freaking park. I'll concede that Ch. 8's conclusion is pretty stunning in la...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49925344">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[  Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence   with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie’s   vivacious cousin enters their household as a &quot;hired girl,&quot; Ethan finds himself obsessed   with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.  <p>  In one of American fiction’s finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this   ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from   Wharton’s other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most   widely read novel.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edith Wharton is certainly one of my favorite author. I remember I was first captivated by her short story called “Roman Fever” and then amazed by “The age of Innocence”.  What fascinates me about her is how well she narrates her story. The language may seem easy compared to other works in h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48585357">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Haaaaaate. Though I will say this for Edith, it's not entirely her fault. A lovely**** woman named Carol A. Powers holds much of the responsibility for my grudge against this book. Not all, but a good amount. The book does suck on its own merits.<br/><br/>Let me tell you something. While I have no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/309664">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The image of two lovers driving a car into a tree so they can commit dual suicide, but who in fact only end up severely crippling themselves, has not left me since I first read this book.  I wouldn't recommend letting anyone under the age of 15 read this book purely for that reason (I mean, what kin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4685762">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just read this book for the first time because it seemed like the kind of thing that one should have read prior to becoming an English teacher.  First of all, Edith Wharton was born in New York, lived in Paris, was nee Jones, as in the family from which the expression &quot;keeping up with the Jon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/990064">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a romantic tragedy that culminates in a sledding accident. I will just say a few brief words about that. First, there is probably a reason that sledding accidents don't figure more heavily in tragedies. Shakespeare wrote like 13 tragedies and to the best of my knowledge none featured a sledd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53876820">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bleak fiction for bleak fiction’s sake about a miserable man in an inescapable, loveless marriage and his desire for another woman. Hollow and myopic, easily one of the most disappointing experiences I’ve ever had with a supposed classic. Other gothics would earn their tragedy, but this is just ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4715367">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm used to long novels that take days if not weeks to read.  Well those are my favorites at least.  This I finished in less than 4 hours, with interruptions.  Edith Wharton was reccommended to me by a fellow goodreads member with reference to my appreciation of Victorian literature.  The writing is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28538666">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the writing in this book.  I liked the story-line of this book.  I liked the idea of the author writing it because she was experiencing something similar (bad marriage, finding love elsewhere).  I pretty much liked it up until the end.  The whole book you are looking at Ethan Frome as someth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25685890">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Somehow I missed this in 9th grade English, and after reading this brief, moving novella, I can well understand its ranking as a classic.<br/><br/>In one sense, it works as a story for junior highs; it's a deeply melodramatic romantic story. But in a broader sense, its subtleties and the tightly w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14693802">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although it is a tragedy like &quot;Tess of the d'Urbervilles&quot;, it's not the same slow, exquisite train wreck that Tess was.<br/><br/>Wharton's classic is more sparse, less ornate, and captures the New England stark winter desolation that mirrors Ethan Frome's internal world. <br/><br/>&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8072404">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always been a big Edith Wharton fan and this short novel shows why.  Ethan doesn't love the woman is trapped into a marriage with, and can't escape either.  Wharton is a master and shows it in her shorter fiction.]]></body>
    
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