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Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton
Dover Publications · 77 pages
★ 7.0 editorial score

Snowbound on a failing Massachusetts farm, Ethan Frome works beside a wife who is perpetually ill and the young cousin he has fallen for. Wharton makes poverty and duty feel like weather.

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Novel
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1911Depicts Gilded Age (US)Depicts 1900s

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