num_pages: 152
description: First published in 1911, Ethan Frome is widely regarded as Edith Wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of New England, it is the tragic tale of a simple man, bound to the demands of his farm and his tyrannical, sickly wife, Zeena, and driven by his star-crossed love for Zeena's young cousin, Mattie Silver. "In its spare, chilling creation of rural isolation, hardscrabble poverty and wintry landscape," writes Alfred Kazin in his afterword, "Ethan Frome overwhelms the reader as a drama of irresistible necessity." An exemplary work of literary realism in setting and character, Ethan Frome stands as one of the great classics of twentieth-century American literature.(back cover)
language: English
title: Ethan Frome
titlecomplete: Ethan Frome
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: 123710
places: Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, Massachusetts
publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction