{"product_id":"ethan-frome-summer-bunner-sisters","title":"Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-cass people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton''s characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Wharton''s most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. \u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e - Wharton herself called it ''the hot Ethan'' - in its portrayal of a young woman''s sexual and social awakening. \u003ci\u003eBunner Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late-nineteenth-century New York, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes.\u003cbr\u003eAll three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of America''s greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57342456922494,"sku":"NW9781841593128","price":12.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781841593128.jpg?v=1778655611","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/ethan-frome-summer-bunner-sisters","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}