Ethan Frome

Synopsis

Set against the frozen waste of a harsh new england winter, edith wharton's ethan frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by elizabeth ammons in penguin classics. Ethan frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, zeenie. But when zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.