Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton’s short novel of Ethan Frome, a poor farmer in a bleak New England village, bound to his ailing, complaining wife Zeena, and of his love for her young cousin Mattie Silver, who comes to live with them.

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• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

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Contents

1. Prologue
2. Chapter I
3. Chapter II
4. Chapter III
5. Chapter IV
6. Chapter V
7. Chapter VI
8. Chapter VII
9. Chapter VIII
10. Chapter IX
11. Epilogue