Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
146 pages~2 hrs
“In a landscape of ice, some desires are cold enough to burn.”
Trapped in a loveless marriage and the suffocating silence of a frozen Massachusetts winter, Ethan Frome finds a dangerous lifeline in his wife’s spirited cousin. Their forbidden connection sets the stage for a heart-wrenching struggle between the life he is forced to live and the one he desperately craves.
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