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Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It details the story of a man who falls in love with his wife's cousin and the tragedies which result from the ensuing love triangle. The novel has been adapted into a film of the same name.
- Edith Wharton
- 1911
Finding himself laid up in the small New England town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn about the life of a mysterious local named Ethan Frome, who had a tragic accident some twenty years earlier.
- Edith Wharton
- 1911
Ethan Frome, a novel published in 1911 by Edith Wharton, is a tragic love story set in the fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The story revolves around the eponymous character, Ethan Frome, a struggling farmer trapped in a loveless marriage to his sickly and embittered wife, Zeena.
The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena.
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