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Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters... Read Full Overview

Ethan Frome , written by Edith Wharton, is a classic American novel that focuses on the story of a broken "ruin of a man" -- the titular Ethan Frome -- and the series of misfortunes in life and love that contribute to his fate. Set in the rural town of Starkfield, Massachusetts,... Read Full Overview

Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in Penguin Classics. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and... Read Full Overview

A masterwork From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nineteenth-century New England villager Ethan Frome is tormented by his love for his ailing wife's cousin. Trapped, he may ultimately be destroyed by that which offers his greatest chance at happiness...

Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately... Read Full Overview

Ethan Frome , written by Edith Wharton, is a classic American novel that focuses on the story of a broken "ruin of a man" -- the titular Ethan Frome -- and the series of misfortunes in life and love that contribute to his fate. Set in the rural town of Starkfield, Massachusetts,... Read Full Overview

The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'

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Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome,... Read Full Overview

Ethan Frome is a book published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton's classic novella of lost love, struggling marriage, and accidents. The narrator followings the happening in the life of Ethan Frome, who falls in love with a woman who had been hired to care for his wife. Tensions run high in the love triangle, leading to a devastating... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton's most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella explores the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people... Read Full Overview