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Edith Newbold Jones -Wharton (1862-1937): Edith was born in New York City on January 24th 1862, She was born during the civil war into a wealthy New York family. The youngest of 3 children she showed many signs of wanting to be a writer when she grew older. she showed great signs of energy and restless intelligence. As a young child her family moved to Europe and her parents lived largely in France and Italy. Wharton published her first short story at the age of 29. Then at the age of 37 a collection of stories called //The Greater Inclination// appeared. In 1885 Edith Jones married Edward Wharton of Boston whom she divorced in 1913. At the age of 53 Edith moved to Paris where her life became truly her own. During World War 1, she turned her energy into establishing housing for the war refugees. After the war was Edith's most productive literary phase, publishing best sellers such as //A Son at the Front, The Glimpses of the Moon//, and //The Age of Innocence.// She also became the first women to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book //The Age of Innocence// She died of a stroke in 1937 in France. All information from: Wharton, Edith. __Ethan Frome.__ New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004

 The story of __Ethan Frome__ is a love story. A tricky love between a young massachusets farmer who is married but is in love with his wifes helping hand. Through out the book Ethans wife continuously gets sicker and sicker as he keeps falling for Mattie, Zeena (his wife’s) helping hand. Until one day Zeena is fed up and puts Mattie out and calls for new hired help because she is disastisfied with Mattie’s work. Ethan could not bear the thought of never seeing Mattie again so he begins to think of plans to escape and run aways with her, when it strikes him, what if Mattie does not feel the same for him, If they do run away where will they go, where will they live, what about money? = Ethan Frome, was a suspensful and heart renching story. The story started out a little slow and confusing but in about the second or third chapter it started to get interesting. It was very detailed and interesting. I wish the author would have started out the story a little earlier in time to give some more backround information instead of just jumping right in to the story. =
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I believe the story of Ethan Frome made the Outstanding Book list because it is very detailed and gets into great depth. It makes you think about how you would feel in a situation like that of Ethan and it is very easy to relate to the characters. It is not a easy brezzy read but it is enjoyable and suspensful, which makes you want to keep reading. The story of __Ethan Frome__ is a love story. It kind of tells you of how times were before all the money and the common technology and things that we take advantage of these days. It also shows how hard times were and how truely lucky we are, even when we don’t see it.  Most deffinitly! It is a very good book and I would recomend it to any one would enjoy a nice love story. It is quite a short story so it would be a nice quick read. Mostly to that of the girls, sorry boys!
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