Struggling with his unproductive farm and a demanding and hypochondriac wife Zeena, Ethan Frome has a last chance for happiness when his wife’s cousin Mattie arrives to help.
“You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart— you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." — Heathcliff
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning
— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." — Nick Carraway
“Never in her life — she could swear it from the bottom of her soul — had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”
In the midst of the French and Indian War, two daughters journey across the frontier to reach their father at Fort William Henry escorted by their singing teacher, a brave woodsman Hawkeye, and his loyal Mohican friends.
