Books

WHARTON, Edith. Ethan Frome. Original cloth, T.e.g. New York; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First edition, first issue. With the bookplate of the noted book collector John Stuart Grove. Very light rubbing to spine lettering, else a near fine copy in a custom 1/2-morocco slipcase.

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film in 1993. The story is a frame narrative concerning an unnamed narrator who tells the story based on an account from observations at Frome's house when he had to stay there during a winter storm. It is a classic of American literature, depicting the struggle between individual desire and social expectations.