Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton "The Annotated Classic Edition"

Ethan Frome is a masterwork From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton.


Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions,


Ethan Frome is a poor farmer, trapped in a marriage to a demanding and controlling wife, Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie enters their household she opens a window of hope in Ethan's bleak life, but his wife's reaction prompts a desperate attempt to escape fate that goes horribly wrong.


In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies.


Ethan Frome is an unforgettable story with the force of myth, featuring realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured.