Fiction · 1911
Ethan Frome
A visitor to a bleak Massachusetts hill town pieces together the story of a lame farmer: his sick, exacting wife Zeena, her young cousin Mattie Silver who came to keep house, and a sled ride one winter night.
Edith Wharton published the short novel in 1911. It is unlike the rest of her work in setting and in class — no drawing rooms, no money, no society to be judged by — and it is often the first of her books a reader meets. What holds it together is the frame: the narrator arrives twenty-four years after the fact and has to assemble the story out of what the people of Starkfield will not say.
The nine chapters and the frame that encloses them are given complete.
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1862–1937 · Modern
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