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. In one of American fiction's finest and
most intense narratives Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio towards their tragic
destinies.
