num_pages: 223
description: Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is 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 her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
language: English
title: Ethan Frome
titlecomplete: Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
characters: Daniel Byrne, Ned Hale, Mrs. Homan, Eliza Spears, Andrew Hale, Dr. Kidder, Lawyer Varnum, Jotham Powell, Ethan Frome, Mrs. Frome, Mrs. Ned Hale, Mrs. Varnum, Mattie Silver, Harmon Gow, Michael Eady, Orin Silver, Zeena Frome, Aunt Philura Maple, Dr. Buck, Mrs. Hale, Denis Eady, Aunt Martha Pierce
genres: Fiction, Classics, Read For School, American, Historical Fiction, High School, Romance, Literature, Novels, School
ratings_count: 123716
places: Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, Massachusetts
publisher: Penguin Classics