#ethan frome

[dryad-knifeplay]

and is this a “beloved friend” Blorbo or a “they’re a deeply held part of me” Blorbo or a “i want them to get blended up inside the torture nexus” Blorbo?

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Peruse my Bookshelf: 2025 Reads

Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie

Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain

Sofia Petrovna, Lydia Chukovskaya

Villette, Charlotte Brontë

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

Voting ended onJan 12

*Dangerous Motherhood is by Hillary Marland, the poll couldn't fit everything

[megairea]

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, 1911

[miladythewinter]

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

[thevoiceofdoomcalling]

books used to start from the perspective of just some guy. frankenstein, wuthering heights, ethan frome.

some outsider tells the story. or, more accurately and more often, the story is told to some outsider, by the insiders. and that outsider then relays it to us, in some form or another.

what i find funny is that these stories survive in pop culture and are relatively familiar even to those who haven’t read the originals. but the introductory character is very nearly forgotten unless you read source material.

what are other classics that do this? and can anyone think of modern novels that do the same?

[lady-dedlock]

He fell asleep, and when he woke the chill of the winter dawn was in the room.

Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

[does-this-character-eat-pussy]

zeena frome (ethan frome)

Does Zeena Frome from Ethan Frome eat pussy?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJan 7

[allthatiknowisthatiknownothing]

“He was too young, too strong, too full of the sap of living, to submit so easily to the destruction of his hopes.” Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome