Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is a classic novel of forbidden emotions, despair, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside. In one of her most enduring works, Wharton tells the tragic story of Ethan Frome--a farmer struggling to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult and suspicious 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.