Set in Starkville, Massachusetts and centered on the ill-fated romance between the title character and Zeena's cousin, Mattie Silver, for 10 points, name this novel featuring a sled-riding accident written by Edith Wharton.
The author, publishing a brief analysis of this work, makes no claim of originality as its construction is attributed to Balzac's "Le Grand Breteche" and Browning's "The Ring and the Book." In one scene the title character concludes that Denis Eady, the son of an ambitious Irish grocer whose effrontery introduced "smart" business methods to the village, now deserved a horse-whipping after dancing with a young lady whom he had been sent to fetch. Earlier in this novel, the narrator, after speaking of an (*) engineering job he had had in Florida, has his missing volume of popular science returned to him by the title character. Tragedy is set in motion during an erotically tinged scene involving a troublesome cat and Aunt Philura's wedding gift, a red-glass pickle dish. Set in Starkville, Massachusetts and centered on the ill-fated romance between the title character and Zeena's cousin, Mattie Silver, for 10 points, name this novel featuring a sled-riding accident written by Edith Wharton.
The author, publishing a brief analysis of this work, makes no claim of originality as its construction is attributed to Balzac's "Le Grand Breteche" and Browning's "The Ring and the Book."
{Ethan Frome}