Download or read book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton "The Annotated Classic Edition" written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.