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archergal 's review for:
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Reread for Victorian/Edwardian book club.
In 2022, I read it and think "Poverty destroys peoples' souls." Also, "Hell is other people."
Listened to a Librivox recording again.
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I have a vague memory of reading this when I was in high school. It had stuck in my mind as being dramatic, but that's pretty much all I remembered about it.
And wow, what a devastating story. Poverty, several horribly constrained lives, the chance of love and loss of it - wow. Broken bodies, broken lives, broken hearts.
This, along with the Algernon Blackwood story, are the first couple of entries into my year of adding classics to my reading list. This should be fun.
I listened to a Librivox recording and followed along with a Project Gutenberg text version, just because.
In 2022, I read it and think "Poverty destroys peoples' souls." Also, "Hell is other people."
Listened to a Librivox recording again.
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I have a vague memory of reading this when I was in high school. It had stuck in my mind as being dramatic, but that's pretty much all I remembered about it.
And wow, what a devastating story. Poverty, several horribly constrained lives, the chance of love and loss of it - wow. Broken bodies, broken lives, broken hearts.
This, along with the Algernon Blackwood story, are the first couple of entries into my year of adding classics to my reading list. This should be fun.
I listened to a Librivox recording and followed along with a Project Gutenberg text version, just because.