false 5246 139 Elizabeth Ammons (foreword) 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. <P> In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read novel. 132919 book 1909 Ethan Frome total:12995|5:2095|4:3700|3:3921|2:2024|1:1255| 12995 42341 15454 974 1 7 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Thu Aug 30 13:39:38 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 14:00:10 -0700 2007 "Hey Mrs. Kinetta, are you still inflicting all that horrible Ethan Frome damage on your students?" - John Cusack, Grosse Pointe Blank

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Wharton's classic is more sparse, less ornate, and captures the New England stark winter desolation that mirrors Ethan Frome's internal world.

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