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Ethan Frome

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Chapter 00
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Chapter 01
15:52
Chapter 02
16:42
Chapter 03
11:20
Chapter 04
22:30
Chapter 05
10:56
Chapter 06
9:24
Chapter 07
23:54
Chapter 08
16:24
Chapter 09
39:40

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In a bleak, snowbound New England village, the poor farmer Ethan Frome is trapped in a loveless marriage to his sickly, querulous wife when he falls in love with her gentle young cousin Mattie—a passion that drives toward a shattering, tragic act. Wharton's spare, powerful novella is a masterpiece of restrained tragedy, its wintry landscape mirroring lives frozen by poverty, duty, and thwarted desire. Unforgettable and devastating, Ethan Frome strips romance to its cruelest bones. Tautly written and emotionally overwhelming, it is one of the great American short novels—a stark, haunting story of longing crushed beneath circumstance and the long, silent suffering that follows.

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones into the New York society she spent a career anatomising, and her first book was about interior decoration rather than fiction: The Decoration of Houses, written in 1897 with the architect Ogden Codman Jr.

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