Ethan Frome

Written by Edith Wharton

Narrated by Richard Thomas

A masterpiece by Edith Wharton, author of The Age of Innocence.

Winter in a Massachusetts village serves as a backdrop to Edith Wharton' s masterpiece about a man with little hope of escaping his bleak future. Married to an older woman named Zeena, Ethan Frome finds himself drawn to his wife' s cousin, Mattie. Although he dreams of fleeing his loveless marriage and stealing away with Mattie, Ethan has neither the means nor the will. Mattie offers another solution, a desperate act borne out of despair that may result in even greater tragedy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 1, 2001
• ISBN: 9781597777193

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.