Ethan Frome

Name: Ethan Frome
Author: Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

English · 1911 · Fiction

Edith Wharton's short novel portrays a farmer bound by poverty and duty in a bleak New England village, read for its spare, restrained prose.

Introduction
Prologue
Chapter IThe village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy…
Chapter IIAs the dancers poured out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the…
Chapter IIIThere was some hauling to be done at the lower end of the wood-lot…
Chapter IVAs soon as his wife had driven off Ethan took his coat and cap from…
Chapter VThey finished supper, and while Mattie cleared the table Ethan went…
Chapter VIThe next morning at breakfast Jotham Powell was between them, and…
Chapter VIIEthan went out into the passage to hang up his wet garments. He…
Chapter VIIIWhen Ethan was called back to the farm by his father’s illness his…
Chapter IXAt the kitchen door Daniel Byrne sat in his sleigh behind a big-boned…
Epilogue

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