Ethan Frome (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

In the dead gray cold of Starkfield, Massachusetts, farmer Ethan Frome is struggling to scrape out a living. His duties are to his wife, Zeena - an ungrateful, soul-sick hypochondriac as frigid as the New England winter. When Zeena’s cousin Mattie arrives to help with the farm, the ethereal, gentle-natured beauty brings a light and a fugitive affection into Ethan’s life. Yet for Ethan and Mattie, daring to be happy - and together - will have its consequences.

Exploring the costs of living life according to social mores, Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome is a masterwork of doomed love.

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Revised edition: Previously published as Ethan Frome, this edition of Ethan Frome (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved

A Well-Written Journey of Misery

Who wouldn’t pity Ethan Fromme in his situation? The author masterfully pulls you in and sits you in his shoes, makes you think hard about justifying the immoral, and then pulls you out - thankful that your situation isn’t so bleak, and so you, like the narrator, are free to walk away from the situation, and be a better person from knowing it and not having to stay in it.

The reader does a wonderful job of voicing the different characters and giving proper inflection to make sense of the older customary speech. Well done!

A classic story well read by.

Well read and performed by the narrator. I haven't had time to read it in a long time but I enjoyed listening to it here.

Heartbreaking narration and story

What a performance! I couldn't stop listening. Wharton is my favorite author of all, quite possibly, and Christopher Lane truly does her work justice.

Interesting

This story was sad, heartwarming, then heartbreaking. It was an interesting story and had a very unexpected ending. Definitely kept my attention to the end.

A Compromised Life

Edith Wharton is known for often capturing the guilded age life of the life of the late 1800’s. Here she portrays a much simpler life during that time, that reflects the universal theme of how we live with life choices. Here we find a universal theme; a couple trapped in the grind of life, made more complex by living with chronic illness or is it what evolves from loveless ness and control? A ray of light, a potential breathe of fresh air reached for and we see into the delicate balance of family & community dynamics.