Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton\'s Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in Penguin Classics.
But when Zeenie\'s vivacious cousin enters their household as a \'hired girl\', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her a.
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie.
Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton\'s Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in Penguin Classics
