Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
Summary
This is a love triangle, set in the rural isolation of New England, which has devastating consequences. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. The trio move towards their tragic destinies.
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Edith Wharton
James Boswell
W.M. Thackeray
George Meredith
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Henry Fielding
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