Presents food scenes excerpted from twenty-five classic novels and stories including Jane Austen's "Emma" and Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," and provides commentary and original recipes that complement the text.

Set in New England, a farmer struggles to survive a bare existence, tethered to his farm, first by his helpless parents and then by a hypochondriac wife. Yet, when his wife's alluring cousin comes to stay, his dreams are rekindled

THE STORY: As told by Gabriel in the New York Journal-American, the play concerns farmer Ethan Frome, his complaining wife Zenobia, and her young kinswoman and house-drudge Mattie Silver. And of Ethan's and Mattie's awkward, hide-bound passion in

A New England farmer must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for her cousin

**** Reprint of the Oxford U. Press edition of 1977 (which is cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR