Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton 1970 Charles Scribner's & Sons vintage paperback

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Condition: Acceptable condition for a used book! Some wear. Warped cover. See images for the condition of this book. Blurb: The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and se xual undercurrents set against the austere New England countrysideEthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena'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.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 book. Show more