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　　On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity.

　　Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, “The Last Asset,” “The Other Two,” and “Xingu.” Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of America’s finest writers.

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　　The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Whartonwas born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as anovelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated bytutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career:marriage. But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was anemotional disappointment, if not a disaster. She suffered the firstof a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894. In spite of the strainof her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to writefiction and published her first story in 1889.

The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton
was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a
novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated by
tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career:
marriage. But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an
emotional disappointment, if not a disaster. She suffered the first
of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894. In spite of the strain
of her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to write
fiction and published her first story in 1889.
　　Her first published book was a guide to interior decorating,
but this was followed by several novels and story collections. They
were written while the Whartons lived in Newport and New York,
traveled in Europe, and built their grand home, The Mount, in
Lenox, Massachusetts. In Europe, she met Henry James, who became
her good friend, traveling companion, and the sternest but most
careful critic of her fiction. The House of Mirth (1905) was both a
resounding critical success and a bestseller, as was Ethan Frome
(1911). In 1913 the Whartons were divorced, and Edith took up
permanent residence in France. Her subject, however, remained
America, especially the moneyed New York of her youth. Her great
satiric novel, The Custom of the Country was published in 1913 and
The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
　　In her later years, she enjoyed the admiration of a new
generation of writers, including Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott
Fitzgerald. In all, she wrote some thirty books, including an
autobiography. A Backwards Glance (1934). She died at her villa
near Paris in 1937.

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目　　录

Introduction by Mary Gordon
ETHAN FROME
THE TOUCHSTONE
THE LAST ASSET
XINGU
THE OTHER TWO

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