Ethan Frome

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noun

1. a novel (1911) by Edith Wharton.

Example Sentences

For years she had found partial release in literature: in “Hamlet,” in “Ethan Frome,” with the “delirious descent” of its attempted suicide, which she read aloud to herself over and over.

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That austere masterpiece “Ethan Frome” stands in a room all by itself; it is an illustration, however, of the fact that our novelist, who knows Paris and the Continental urban scenes so well, was equally at home in a barren American village.

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To be fair, it’s clear that in writing “Mr. Fullerton” — a play about Wharton, Henry James and their mutual inamorato, Morton Fullerton — Anne Undeland was as besotted as I am by the steely author of classic novels including “The Age of Innocence,” “Ethan Frome” and “The House of Mirth.”

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Coming out of the affair she produced “Ethan Frome.”

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Though Posy is an invention, readers of “Ethan Frome” will immediately recognize the story of the sledding accident from the climax of the novel.

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