by Aseem Gupta | Aug 22, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham is best known for novels built around lawyers, courtrooms, conspiracies, and institutions of power, but A Painted House moves almost completely outside that world. Published by Doubleday in 2001, the novel returns to rural Arkansas in 1952 and follows...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 9, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, first published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1911, is a remarkably compressed tragedy about a man who longs to escape an unhappy marriage and an impoverished life in rural Massachusetts. Its surface plot is simple: Ethan Frome falls in...
