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Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

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The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house-fronts between the elms looked gray against the snow, clumps of bushes made black stains on it, and the basement windows of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations. Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varnum's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate. Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle. As the young man walked toward it the upper windows drew a black arcade along the side wall of the building, but from the lower openings, on the side where the ground sloped steeply down to the Corbury road, the light shot its long bars, illuminating many fresh furrows in the track leading to the basement door, and showing, under an adjoining shed, a line of sleighs with heavily blanketed horses.

The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house-fronts between the elms looked gray against the snow, clumps of bushes made black stains on it, and the basement windows of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations. Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varnum's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate. Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle. As the young man walked toward it the upper windows drew a black arcade along the side wall of the building, but from the lower openings, on the side where the ground sloped steeply down to the Corbury road, the light shot its long bars, illuminating many fresh furrows in the track leading to the basement door, and showing, under an adjoining shed, a line of sleighs with heavily blanketed horses.
  • Isbn
    9786253872045
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    8.4 MB
  • Número de páginas
    126
  • Idioma
    Inglés
  • Formato
    EPUB
  • Protección
    DRM
  • Referencia
    BKW175469
Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton nació en Nueva York en 1862. Su nombre de soltera era Edith Newbold Jones. Su familia era de clase alta, comparable a la aristocracia europea, y consecuentemente recibió una esmerada educación privada. Antes de cumplir los cinco años viajó por primera vez con sus padres a Europa. En 1885, cuando tenía veintitrés años, Edith se casó con Edgard (Teddy) Robbins Wharton, doce años mayor que ella. Se divorciaron en 1913 a causa de las repetidas y públicas infidelidades de su marido, que afectaron mental y físicamente a la escritora y que motivaron que tuviera que ser ingresada en una casa de reposo. Su primera novela, El valle de la decisión, se publicó en 1902: un romance histórico que transcurre en la Italia del siglo XVIII. El año siguiente publicaría Santuario, y en 1905 vería la luz su primera gran novela, La casa de la alegría. En 1907 se estableció definitivamente en Francia, donde se convirtió en discípula y amiga de Henry James. De esta época destaca su novela corta Ethan Frome, una trágica historia de amor entre personas corrientes ambientada en Nueva Inglaterra, que se publicó en 1911. Su obra más conocida es La edad de la inocencia, publicada en 1920 y ganadora del premio Pulitzer en 1921. Edith Wharton está considerada la más genial novelista americana de su generación, admirada por intelectuales de la talla de Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau y Ernest Hemingway. Falleció el 11 de agosto de 1937 en la localidad de Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, cerca de París.