Ethan Frome (Adaptation): Oxford Bookworms Library - Edith Wharton & Jennifer Bassett (adaptation)

By Edith Wharton & Jennifer Bassett (adaptation)

Release Date: 2010-12-20

Genre: Nonfiction

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Ethan Frome (Adaptation): Oxford Bookwor Edith Wharton & Jennifer Bassett (adaptation)
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....

An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Edith Wharton original by Susan Kingsley.

Ethan Frome (Adaptation): Oxford Bookworms Library - Edith Wharton & Jennifer Bassett (adaptation)

By Edith Wharton & Jennifer Bassett (adaptation)

Release Date: 2010-12-20

Genre: Nonfiction

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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....

An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Edith Wharton original by Susan Kingsley.

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