Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction by Mary Gordon, Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

Mary Gordon, Edith Wharton

336 pages first pub 1911 (editions)

fiction classics short stories reflective sad slow-paced

Description

On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife's orphaned cousin, Mattie Si...

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