num_pages: 159
description: Ethan Frome is a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome is set in a fictional New England town named Starkfield, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with dreams and desires that end in an ironic turn of events. The narrator tells the story based on an account from observations at Frome's house when he had to stay there during a winter storm. The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The first chapter opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield. He sets out to learn about the life of a mysterious local figure named Ethan Frome, a man who had been injured in a horrific "smash-up" twenty-four years before.
language: English
title: Ethan Frome
titlecomplete: Ethan Frome
characters: Dr. Kidder, Ned Hale, Mrs. Varnum, Aunt Martha Pierce, Mrs. Hale, Orin Silver, Harmon Gow, Zeena Frome, Mrs. Frome, Andrew Hale, Aunt Philura Maple, Michael Eady, Eliza Spears, Lawyer Varnum, Daniel Byrne, Mrs. Ned Hale, Mattie Silver, Denis Eady, Jotham Powell, Ethan Frome, Mrs. Homan, Dr. Buck
genres: Literature, American, School, Classics, Novels, High School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Read For School, Romance
ratings_count: 123699
places: Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, Massachusetts
publisher: Chivers