num_pages: 99
description: The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countrysideEthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.
language: English
title: Ethan Frome
titlecomplete: Ethan Frome
characters: Denis Eady, Harmon Gow, Mrs. Frome, Ethan Frome, Aunt Martha Pierce, Aunt Philura Maple, Eliza Spears, Jotham Powell, Mrs. Homan, Orin Silver, Mattie Silver, Mrs. Ned Hale, Mrs. Hale, Dr. Buck, Ned Hale, Daniel Byrne, Andrew Hale, Michael Eady, Mrs. Varnum, Zeena Frome, Lawyer Varnum, Dr. Kidder
genres: Read For School, American, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, Literature, High School, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 123699
places: New England, Starkfield, Massachusetts, Massachusetts
publisher: Penguin Classics