Ethan Frome - print on demand

The setting for this piercing New England novel is the aptly named Starkfield, where, despite violently blue skies, the chill of cold and snow seems also to settle inside the hearts of the people who live there. Tethered to his farm, first by helpless parents, later by his querulous, hypochondriac wife Zeena, Ethan Frome ekes out a bare subsistence. Then Zeena's cousin, the impoverished, enchanting Mattie Silver comes to work for them, and, in Mattie, Ethan's hopes and dreams are rekindled. Yet theirs is a forbidden love, hemmed in by Zeena's presence. The impossible intensity in which the three exist has devastating consequences...

Product details

• Authors: Edith Wharton
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.04.2007
• EAN: 9781844083527
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-352-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; Virago modern classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction