Ethan Frome

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destru... (more)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters."Ethan Frome" is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. "Summer, " also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to "Ethan Frome"-Wharton herself called it "the hot Ethan"-in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. "Bunner Sisters" takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late nineteenth-century New York City, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes. All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of our greatest writers. (less)

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Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrod... (more)

Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. (less)

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

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

"One of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-to... (more)

"One of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man. He lives a desolate, impoverished life in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, bound by an unassailable sense of duty. But long ago, Ethan dreamed of something beyond his bleak and tedious New England existence. Once, he had dared to have hope for the future.Ethan Frome " tells the wrenching story of a love destined not to be and a man mired in his own private hell. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.". (less)