THE ATHENAEUMEthan FromeEdith Wharton
Novel
Ethan Frome
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA poor farmer in a frozen New England village, his ailing, complaining wife, and her young cousin who comes to help in the house. Edith Wharton’s short novel of 1911 moves slowly towards a sledding hill. It is the bleakest book she wrote, and among the best.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #4517. In the public domain in the United States.